leaguevsLepageWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: league is a noun, Lepage is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“league” is a noun and “Lepage” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#772
“league” frequency rank
#43,754
“Lepage” frequency rank
44526
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature league Lepage
Definition A group or association of cooperating members. A surname from French, equivalent to English Page.

Letter map: league vs Lepage

Shared letters muted; letters that set league and Lepage apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. league (CVVCVV) and Lepage (CVCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
league
6 ch
Lepage

Part-of-speech tell for league / Lepage

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: league is anoun and Lepageaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44526, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

league is recorded at frequency rank #772, classified as anoun, pronounced /liːɡ/. Lepage is at rank #43,754, tagged as aname.

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 44526, this pair ranks #229,698 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of league vs Lepage

Shared letters: aegl. Private to "league": u. Private to "Lepage": p.

"league" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV  ·  "Lepage" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • league ← elague · laegue · leageu · leaggue · leauge · legaue · lleague
  • Lepage ← elpage · leapge · lepaeg · lepagge · lepgae · leppage · llepage · lpeage

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "league" for "Lepage" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "league" is a noun and "Lepage" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "league" or "Lepage"?
"league" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #772 in our English list, against #43,754 for "Lepage". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "league" and "Lepage". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "league" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Lepage" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #229,698 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "league" and "Lepage" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "leakage vs Lepage". 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 #229,698 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list