Lusitania
/luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/
"lusitania" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lusitania” is an uncommon English word, ranked #67,606 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #67,606
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
| 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) |
Where “Lusitania” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Lusitania is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/. Corpus data places it at rank #67,606 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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.
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Using “Lusitania”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-U-S-I-T-A-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.