Which to use
“leased” is a verb and “leaved” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #12,629
- “leased” frequency rank
- #41,731
- “leaved” frequency rank
- 54360
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | leased | leaved |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of lease | Having a leaf, leaves or folds. |
Where the eye mixes leased and leaved
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. leased and leaved follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between leased and leaved
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: leased is /liːst/ while leaved is /liːvd/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - s in “leased” becomes v in “leaved”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54360, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
leased is recorded at frequency rank #12,629, classified as averb, pronounced /liːst/. leaved is at rank #41,731, tagged as anadj, pronounced /liːvd/.
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 54360, this pair ranks #141,676 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of leased vs leaved
Shared letters: adel. Private to "leased": s. Private to "leaved": v.
"leased" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "leaved" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "leased" and "leaved" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary English text, does "leased" or "leaved" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "leased" and "leaved" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "leased" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "leaved" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #141,676 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "leased" and "leaved" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "laver vs leaved". 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 #141,676 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.