LPA
"lpa" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LPA” is uncommon English (frequency #72,506 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,506
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of local policing area.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LPA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “LPA” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
LPA is uncommon English at frequency #72,506 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for LPA in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is LPA, spelled L-P-A.
Definition
- 1Initialism of local policing area.
- 2Initialism of light personal aircraft.
- 3Initialism of lakhs per annum.
- 4Initialism of lasting power of attorney.
- 5Initialism of low-pressure area.
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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Using “LPA”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-P-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.