lune
/luːn/
"lune" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lune” is uncommon English (frequency #52,471 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,471
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lune · lune · English
lune · rank #52,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,471
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH luminescence
Nearest frequency peer: luminescence (-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 “lune”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- loli
loli
47,534 corpus weight
- LTV
LTV
47,532 corpus weight
- luminescence
luminescence
47,531 corpus weight
- lune
lune
47,530 corpus weight
- Macedon
Macedon
47,529 corpus weight
- machi
machi
47,528 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lune” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lune |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /luːn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lune” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lune is uncommon English at frequency #52,471 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /luːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lune 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin lūna (“moon”). The correct English form is lune, spelled L-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]
Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall[…]
Etymology
From Latin lūna (“moon”).
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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