Lord's
"lord-s" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lord's” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,632
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lord's Cricket Ground, the most historic cricket ground in London and the home of cricket.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lord-s · Lord's · English
Lord's · rank #12,632 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,632
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH loosely
Nearest frequency peer: loosely (-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 neighbourhood for “Lord's”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- leased
leased
87,372 corpus weight
- Lena
Lena
87,371 corpus weight
- loosely
loosely
87,370 corpus weight
- Lord's
Lord's
87,369 corpus weight
- lotus
lotus
87,368 corpus weight
- luna
luna
87,367 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lord's” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Lord's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lord's” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Lord's, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,632 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lord's Cricket Ground, the most historic cricket ground in London and the home of cricket.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lord's, with forms such as "llord's", "lodr's", and "lor'ds". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "lords", "Lourdes", "lord", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after its founder, Thomas Lord. The correct English form is Lord's, spelled L-O-R-D-'-S.
Definition
- 1Lord's Cricket Ground, the most historic cricket ground in London and the home of cricket.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lord's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cricket match is scheduled to be played at Lord's in two weeks.
Etymology
Named after its founder, Thomas Lord.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llord's
- lodr's
- lor'ds
- lord'ss
- lordd's
- lords'
- lorrd's
- lrod's
- olrd's
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lord's - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
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- "Lord's" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "lords". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #12,632 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.