loma
"loma" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loma” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,575) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,575
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loma · loma · English
loma · rank #34,575 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,575
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lookup
Nearest frequency peer: lookup (+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 “loma”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- lighthearted
lighthearted
65,430 corpus weight
- Littleton
Littleton
65,429 corpus weight
- lodgings
lodgings
65,428 corpus weight
- loma
loma
65,426 corpus weight
- lookup
lookup
65,425 corpus weight
- Loughborough
Loughborough
65,424 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “loma” 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 | loma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “loma”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loma is neighbouring look-alikes ("lot", "low", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #34,575 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Gloss: "A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for loma, with forms such as "lloma", "lomma", and "olma". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lot", "low", "los", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From λῶμα (lôma, “fringe, hem”). The correct English form is loma, spelled L-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
Etymology
From λῶμα (lôma, “fringe, hem”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloma
- lomma
- olma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loma - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loma", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).