leafed
/liːft/
"leafed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leafed” is uncommon English (frequency #67,585 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,585
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of leaf
Corpus desk
Index EN-leafed · leafed · English
leafed · rank #67,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,585
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leroux
Nearest frequency peer: Leroux (+3 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 “leafed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lading
lading
32,423 corpus weight
- langue
langue
32,422 corpus weight
- largemouth
largemouth
32,421 corpus weight
- leafed
leafed
32,416 corpus weight
- Leroux
Leroux
32,413 corpus weight
- leukocyte
leukocyte
32,412 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leafed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leafed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /liːft/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leafed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leafed is uncommon English at frequency #67,585 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /liːft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of leaf".
Zero misspellings are on record for leafed in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is leafed, spelled L-E-A-F-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of leaf
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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