leagues
/liːɡz/
"leagues" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leagues” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,310. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,310
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of league
Corpus desk
Index EN-leagues · leagues · English
leagues · rank #8,310 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,310
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lasts
Nearest frequency peer: lasts (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “leagues”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kenneth
Kenneth
91,695 corpus weight
- lad
lad
91,694 corpus weight
- lasts
lasts
91,692 corpus weight
- leagues
leagues
91,691 corpus weight
- Leslie
Leslie
91,690 corpus weight
- literacy
literacy
91,688 corpus weight
What this shows “leagues” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leagues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /liːɡz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “leagues”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around leagues (IPA /liːɡz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,310 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of league".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for leagues, with forms such as "elagues", "laegues", and "leageus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "leaves", "leases", "ledges", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is leagues, spelled L-E-A-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of league
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elagues
- laegues
- leageus
- leaggues
- leaguess
- leaguse
- leauges
- legaues
- lleagues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leagues - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leagues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).