Looe
/luː/
"looe" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Looe” is uncommon English (frequency #82,497 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,497
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in south-east Cornwall, England, situated on the River Looe (OS grid ref SX2553).
Corpus desk
Index EN-looe · Looe · English
Looe · rank #82,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,497
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Loeffler
Nearest frequency peer: Loeffler (-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 “Looe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- linsey
linsey
17,509 corpus weight
- Loeffler
Loeffler
17,505 corpus weight
- Looe
Looe
17,504 corpus weight
- lordly
lordly
17,503 corpus weight
- loth
loth
17,502 corpus weight
- lowball
lowball
17,500 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Looe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Looe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /luː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Looe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Looe is uncommon English at frequency #82,497 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /luː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in south-east Cornwall, England, situated on the River Looe (OS grid ref SX2553).".
Looe has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Cornish logh (“inlet”). Doublet of lay, loch, and lough. The correct English form is Looe, spelled L-O-O-E.
Definition
- 1A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in south-east Cornwall, England, situated on the River Looe (OS grid ref SX2553).
Etymology
From Cornish logh (“inlet”). Doublet of lay, loch, and lough.
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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