loth
"loth" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loth” is uncommon English (frequency #82,499 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,499
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of loath.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loth · loth · English
loth · rank #82,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,499
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lordly
Nearest frequency peer: lordly (-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 “loth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Lutheranism
Lutheranism
17,496 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loth is uncommon English at frequency #82,499 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of loath.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for loth, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: See loath. The correct English form is loth, spelled L-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of loath.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was loth to return to the office without the Henderson file.
If there bee never a Servant-monster i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he sayes ; nor a nest of Antiques ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries, […]
Etymology
See loath.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).