loris
/ˈlɔːɹɪs/
"loris" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loris” is uncommon English (frequency #64,506 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,506
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the subfamily Lorisinae, found in India and southeast Asia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loris · loris · English
loris · rank #64,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,506
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lowrie
Nearest frequency peer: lowrie (+2 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 “loris”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- longish
longish
35,498 corpus weight
- loris
loris
35,495 corpus weight
- lowrie
lowrie
35,493 corpus weight
- Luann
Luann
35,492 corpus weight
- luft
luft
35,491 corpus weight
- Lyndsey
Lyndsey
35,490 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loris” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loris |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɔːɹɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loris” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loris is uncommon English at frequency #64,506 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlɔːɹɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the subfamily Lorisinae, found in India and southeast Asia.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for loris, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French loris, reportedly from obsolete Dutch loeris (“simpleton”). The correct English form is loris, spelled L-O-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the subfamily Lorisinae, found in India and southeast Asia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If the stairs allow such room for thought it’s because Trudy is taking them at the pace of the slowest loris.
Etymology
From French loris, reportedly from obsolete Dutch loeris (“simpleton”).
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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