leaguer
"leaguer" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leaguer” is uncommon English (frequency #57,512 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,512
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A siege.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leaguer · leaguer · English
leaguer · rank #57,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,512
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LBW
Nearest frequency peer: LBW (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “leaguer”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- laryngeal
laryngeal
42,493 corpus weight
- Lavery
Lavery
42,492 corpus weight
- LBW
LBW
42,490 corpus weight
- leaguer
leaguer
42,489 corpus weight
- leant
leant
42,488 corpus weight
- legalise
legalise
42,487 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “leaguer” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leaguer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leaguer” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
leaguer is uncommon English at frequency #57,512 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for leaguer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair. The correct English form is leaguer, spelled L-E-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1A siege.
- 2The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leaguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We must break the leaguer of the city.
Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks
Etymology
From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.
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).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.