# left vs lex

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### left
*adjective · IPA /ˈlɛft/ · frequency rank #215*
Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

### lex
*verb · IPA /lɛks/ · frequency rank #14,983*
To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.

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