longa
"longa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“longa” is uncommon English (frequency #81,519 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,519
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Belonging to; of, in, at, to.
Corpus desk
Index EN-longa · longa · English
longa · rank #81,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lolling
Nearest frequency peer: lolling (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “longa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- logician
logician
18,485 corpus weight
- lolling
lolling
18,483 corpus weight
- longa
longa
18,482 corpus weight
- longus
longus
18,481 corpus weight
- lout
lout
18,479 corpus weight
- lugged
lugged
18,478 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “longa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “longa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
longa is uncommon English at frequency #81,519 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as apreposition. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Belonging to; of, in, at, to.".
No misspelling variants are generated for longa in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Australian Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long. The correct English form is longa, spelled L-O-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Belonging to; of, in, at, to.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how longa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.
He wait longa river.
Etymology
From Australian Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).