# l vs le

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### l
*character · IPA /ɛl/ · frequency rank #676*
The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

### le
*article · IPA /lə/ · frequency rank #3,005*
the

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/l-vs-le