white lady
"white-lady" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“white lady” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-white-lady · white lady · English
white lady · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | white lady |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “white lady” in English
Rare enough to double-check
white lady is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for white lady, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is white lady, spelled W-H-I-T-E- -L-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
- 2A sour cocktail made with gin or crème de menthe, triple sec or Cointreau, and a citrus juice, sometimes with an egg white.
- 3Methylated spirit.
- 4Cocaine.
- 5Heroin.
- 6Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, lady.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how white lady appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:white lady.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.