Lusitania
/luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/
"lusitania" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lusitania” is uncommon English (frequency #67,606 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,606
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lusitania · Lusitania · English
Lusitania · rank #67,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,606
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lunching
Nearest frequency peer: lunching (-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 “Lusitania”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LLM
LLM
32,401 corpus weight
- lollies
lollies
32,399 corpus weight
- lovelock
lovelock
32,397 corpus weight
- lunching
lunching
32,396 corpus weight
- Lusitania
Lusitania
32,395 corpus weight
- macadam
macadam
32,391 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lusitania” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lusitania |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lusitania” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lusitania is uncommon English at frequency #67,606 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Lusitania has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Lūsītānia. The correct English form is Lusitania, spelled L-U-S-I-T-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
- 2Portugal.
- 3The RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lusitania appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The anti-German riots which erupted simultaneously in many countries in response to the torpedoing of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 reflected shifts in the status of minorities in multi-ethnic societies at a time of escalating nationalist emotions.
Etymology
From Latin Lūsītānia.
This word in other languages
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Lusitania"?
What does "Lusitania" mean?
How do you pronounce "Lusitania"?
What is the origin of the word "Lusitania"?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lusitania", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).