le vs luz, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“le” is an article and “luz” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,005
“le” frequency rank: #27,908
“luz” frequency rank: 30913
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	le	luz
Definition	the	A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.

Letter map: le vs luz

Shared letters muted; letters that set le and luz apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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Part-of-speech tell for le / luz

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: le is anarticle and luzanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30913, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

le is recorded at frequency rank #3,005, classified as anarticle, pronounced /lə/. luz is at rank #27,908, tagged as anoun.

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 30913, this pair ranks #350,557 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of le vs luz

Shared letters: l. Private to "le": e. Private to "luz": uz.

"le" · 2 letters · shape CV · "luz" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "le" for "luz" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "le" is an article and "luz" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "le" vs "luz" - which ranks higher?

"le" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,005 in our English list, against #27,908 for "luz". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "le" and "luz". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "le" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "luz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #350,557 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"le" and "luz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "LSC vs luz". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #350,557 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.