lorazepam
/lɔːˈɹeɪ.zɪ.pam/
"lorazepam" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lorazepam” is uncommon English (frequency #70,845 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,845
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A drug of the benzodiazepine group, used especially to treat anxiety.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lorazepam · lorazepam · English
lorazepam · rank #70,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,845
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LSP
Nearest frequency peer: LSP (+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 “lorazepam”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- loll
loll
29,160 corpus weight
- lorazepam
lorazepam
29,156 corpus weight
- LSP
LSP
29,155 corpus weight
- Ludovic
Ludovic
29,154 corpus weight
- lunchroom
lunchroom
29,152 corpus weight
- lychee
lychee
29,151 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lorazepam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lorazepam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɔːˈɹeɪ.zɪ.pam/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lorazepam” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lorazepam is uncommon English at frequency #70,845 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɔːˈɹeɪ.zɪ.pam/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A drug of the benzodiazepine group, used especially to treat anxiety.".
lorazepam doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From (ch)lor- + -azepam (“diazepam derivative”). The correct English form is lorazepam, spelled L-O-R-A-Z-E-P-A-M.
Definition
- 1A drug of the benzodiazepine group, used especially to treat anxiety.
Etymology
From (ch)lor- + -azepam (“diazepam derivative”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).