Lad or Laud: How To spell?

The word Lad is misspelled against Laud, meaning "To praise in words or song."

Word contains consecutive vowels 'AU' in between alphabets l & d is misspelled as 'A' as letter 'U' is phonetically ignored
Wrong Spelling:  l-a-d 
Correct Spelling:  l-au-d 
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