Luba
"luba" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Luba” is uncommon English (frequency #72,507 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,507
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
Corpus desk
Index EN-luba · Luba · English
Luba · rank #72,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,507
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LPA
Nearest frequency peer: LPA (-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 “Luba”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lowrey
Lowrey
27,497 corpus weight
- Loz
Loz
27,496 corpus weight
- LPA
LPA
27,495 corpus weight
- Luba
Luba
27,494 corpus weight
- lud
lud
27,492 corpus weight
- Lunn
Lunn
27,490 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Luba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Luba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Luba is uncommon English at frequency #72,507 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Luba in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Slavic * (English-language female given name found in Canada): From Ukrainian Люба (Ljuba) The correct English form is Luba, spelled L-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
Etymology
From Slavic * (English-language female given name found in Canada): From Ukrainian Люба (Ljuba)
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).