luz
"luz" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“luz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,908) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,908
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
Corpus desk
Index EN-luz · luz · English
luz · rank #27,908 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,908
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH loyalist
Nearest frequency peer: loyalist (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “luz”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- locator
locator
72,096 corpus weight
- Loeb
Loeb
72,095 corpus weight
- loyalist
loyalist
72,094 corpus weight
- luz
luz
72,093 corpus weight
- Macpherson
Macpherson
72,091 corpus weight
- magnetism
magnetism
72,090 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “luz” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | luz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “luz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for luz is neighbouring look-alikes ("LV", "lx", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #27,908 among 2,297 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for luz in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LV", "lx", "LZ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew לוּז (luz, “almond”). The correct English form is luz, spelled L-U-Z.
Definition
- 1A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
- 2The almond tree
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew לוּז (luz, “almond”).
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).