lyke
"lyke" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lyke” is uncommon English (frequency #91,763 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,763
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of like.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lyke · lyke · English
lyke · rank #91,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,763
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lumberton
Nearest frequency peer: Lumberton (-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 “lyke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lory
lory
8,246 corpus weight
- Lumberton
Lumberton
8,239 corpus weight
- lyke
lyke
8,238 corpus weight
- maddeningly
maddeningly
8,235 corpus weight
- madwoman
madwoman
8,233 corpus weight
- makeout
makeout
8,231 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lyke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lyke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lyke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lyke is uncommon English at frequency #91,763 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lyke in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is lyke, spelled L-Y-K-E.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of like.
- 2Obsolete form of lich (“a corpse”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lyke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lyke-Wake Dirge
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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