lu
/luː/noun
lu is spelled L-U: 2 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Lu, the name). As a noun, lu means “Synonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lu is lus.
How many letters and syllables are in lu?
| Letters | 2: L-U |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is lu?
Lu appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Lu, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lu?
- /luː/
Lu has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with lu
Sounds like: Lou, loo (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: loo.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of lu
- lus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lu mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.
noun
- 1
Initialism of livestock unit.
- 2
A matrix decomposition which writes a matrix as the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix, used in numerical analysis to solve systems of linear equations or find the inverse of a matrix.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does lu come from?
A romanization of Chinese 路 (lù, “route”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).