LeaguevsleaveConfusable pair

Quick tell: League is a noun, leave is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“League” is a noun and “leave” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,976
“League” frequency rank
#25,643
“leave” frequency rank
27619
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature League leave
Definition historisches, in Nordamerika und England verwendetes Längenmaß von einem Ort weggehen; verlassen

Letter map: League vs leave

Shared letters muted; letters that set League and leave apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
League
5 ch
leave

Part-of-speech tell for League / leave

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: League is anoun and leaveaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27619, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

League is recorded at frequency rank #1,976, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. leave is at rank #25,643, tagged as averb, pronounced [liːv].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27619, this pair ranks #1,798,803 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of League vs leave

Shared letters: ael. Private to "League": gu. Private to "leave": v.

"League" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV  ·  "leave" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Leagueelague · laegue · leageu · leaggue · leauge · legaue · lleague
  • leaveelave · laeve · leaev · leavve · levae · lleave

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "League" for "leave" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "League" is a noun and "leave" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "League" or "leave"?
"League" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,976 in our German list, against #25,643 for "leave". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "League" and "leave". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "League" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "leave" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,798,803 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "League" and "leave" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lame vs leave". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,798,803 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list