# lea

> English word · Noun · IPA /liː/ · frequency rank #13,556

## Definitions
1. An open field, meadow, pasture.

## Etymology
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).

## Easily confused with
- **li** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-li)
- **Lt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lt)
- **lo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lo)
- **LP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lp)
- **LN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-ln)
- **Ls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-ls)
- **lg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lg)
- **lu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lu)
- **LF** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lf)
- **LV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lv)
- **LR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lr)
- **LM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lm)
- **LJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lj)
- **lx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lx)
- **LZ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lz)
- **lot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lot)
- **let** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-let)
- **low** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-low)
- **LED** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-led)
- **lol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lea-vs-lol)

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