loong
/lʊŋ/
"loong" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loong” is uncommon English (frequency #65,275 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,275
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A Chinese dragon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lʊŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “loong” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
loong is uncommon English at frequency #65,275 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lʊŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Chinese dragon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for loong in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Mandarin 龍 /龙 (lóng). This spelling is used to differentiate the word from long. The correct English form is loong, spelled L-O-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1A Chinese dragon.
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 龍 /龙 (lóng). This spelling is used to differentiate the word from 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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Using “loong”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-O-O-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.