lowball
"lowball" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lowball” is uncommon English (frequency #82,501 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,501
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Significantly below the actual cost or value.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lowball · lowball · English
lowball · rank #82,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH loth
Nearest frequency peer: loth (-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 “lowball”
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 “lowball” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lowball |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lowball” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lowball is uncommon English at frequency #82,501 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Significantly below the actual cost or value.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lowball, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball. The correct English form is lowball, spelled L-O-W-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Significantly below the actual cost or value.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lowball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In April, NASA selected SpaceX to build the lunar lander for the Artemis program, thanks in part to a lowball $2.9 billion bid.
At the meeting last Wednesday during which these changes were announced, the interim head of the NEH also estimated that each of the 250 statues would cost $100,000 to $200,000, bringing the total cost as high as $50 million. And this may have been a lowball figure.
Etymology
American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.
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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