lol
/ɛl.əʊˈɛl/
"lol" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #948) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #948
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of LOL.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lol · lol · English
lol · rank #948 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #948
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LA
Nearest frequency peer: LA (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “lol”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- deep
deep
99,056 corpus weight
- followed
followed
99,055 corpus weight
- LA
LA
99,054 corpus weight
- lol
lol
99,053 corpus weight
- mark
mark
99,052 corpus weight
- missing
missing
99,051 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “lol” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lol |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “lol”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lol is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lt", "LP", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/. Frequency #948 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative form of LOL.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lol in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lt", "LP", "Ls", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is lol, spelled L-O-L.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of LOL.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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