leached
"leached" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leached” is uncommon English (frequency #77,858 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,858
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of leach
Corpus desk
Index EN-leached · leached · English
leached · rank #77,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,858
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lazing
Nearest frequency peer: lazing (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “leached”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lawfulness
lawfulness
22,147 corpus weight
- Lawndale
Lawndale
22,146 corpus weight
- lazing
lazing
22,145 corpus weight
- leached
leached
22,143 corpus weight
- leftmost
leftmost
22,140 corpus weight
- leis
leis
22,139 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leached” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leached |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leached” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leached is uncommon English at frequency #77,858 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of leach".
leached doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is leached, spelled L-E-A-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of leach
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how leached appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).