leached

verb

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “leached” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for leached
PropertyValue
Headwordleached
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#77,858
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “leached” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).leachedfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “lazing” (#77,856), “Lawndale” (#77,855), “leftmost” (#77,861). Among 2,297 “L” headwords, “leached” is #77,858. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of leach

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how leached appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. [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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leached"?
"leached" is spelled L-E-A-C-H-E-D.
What does "leached" mean?
As a verb, "leached" means: simple past and past participle of leach
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leached", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list