Lea
[ˈleːa]
The verdict
“Lea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,893) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,893
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-lea · Lea · German
Lea · rank #10,893 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,893
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lara
Nearest frequency peer: Lara (-1 rank slots)
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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Lea“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- künstlichen
künstlichen
89,111 corpus weight
- Landwirte
Landwirte
89,110 corpus weight
- Lara
Lara
89,109 corpus weight
- Lea
Lea
89,108 corpus weight
- lehrt
lehrt
89,107 corpus weight
- Leichtathle…
Leichtathletik
89,106 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Lea“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lea |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈleːa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Lea“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lea is neighbouring look-alikes ("Li", "LG", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈleːa]. Frequency #10,893 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lea in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Li", "LG", "LP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Lea, spelled L-E-A.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ganz allein bewirtschaftet Lea einen Bauernhof.
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lea", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).