Lyndhurst

Name: Lyndhurst, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
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By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“Lyndhurst” is uncommon English (frequency #58,166 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,166
frequency rank, English: 16,425
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2908).

Key facts for Lyndhurst
Property	Value
Headword	Lyndhurst
Language	English
Part of speech	Proper noun
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#58,166
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Lyndhurst” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Lyndhurst lands here:

#58,166

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Lyndhurst is uncommon English at frequency #58,166 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 14 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lyndhurst, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English lind (“lime tree”) + Old English hyrst (“hurst”). The correct English form is Lyndhurst, spelled L-Y-N-D-H-U-R-S-T.

Definition

1
A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2908).
2
A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2659)
3
A community in Leeds and the Thousand Islands township, Ontario, Canada.
4
A township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
5
A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
6
A census-designated place in Augusta County, Virginia, United States.
7
An unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
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A number of places in Australia:
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13
A rural locality in Ashburton district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
14
A surname.

Etymology

From Old English lind (“lime tree”) + Old English hyrst (“hurst”).

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 "Lyndhurst"?

"Lyndhurst" is spelled L-Y-N-D-H-U-R-S-T.

What does "Lyndhurst" mean?

As a proper noun, "Lyndhurst" means: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2908).

What is the origin of the word "Lyndhurst"?

From Old English lind (“lime tree”) + Old English hyrst (“hurst”). See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Using “Lyndhurst”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct English spelling is L-Y-N-D-H-U-R-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.