# Leh vs lex

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Leh
*name · IPA /leɪ/ · frequency rank #47,155*
A city, the co-capital of Ladakh, India.

### 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: 2026-09-03.
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