Lucille
/luˈsiːl/
"lucille" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lucille” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,228
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lucille · Lucille · English
Lucille · rank #24,228 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,228
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lovingly
Nearest frequency peer: lovingly (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Lucille”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- lecturing
lecturing
75,778 corpus weight
- linkage
linkage
75,777 corpus weight
- Louvre
Louvre
75,775 corpus weight
- lovingly
lovingly
75,774 corpus weight
- Lucille
Lucille
75,773 corpus weight
- Lyft
Lyft
75,772 corpus weight
What this shows “Lucille” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lucille |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /luˈsiːl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Lucille”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Lucille (IPA /luˈsiːl/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,228 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lucille, with forms such as "lcuille", "llucille", and "luccille". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lille", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Lucille, spelled L-U-C-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lucille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"My name is Lucille." The man sat down heavily, crowding the girl's body against Mr. Munn. "You call her Sukie like I said," he ordered. "Now, Mr. Munn," the girl asked, leaning back so she could look up at him from under the brim of her large straw hat with its blue ribbons, " do you see how he can make Sukie out of a name like Lucille?"
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcuille
- llucille
- luccille
- lucile
- lucilel
- luclile
- luiclle
- ulcille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lucille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lucille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).