Leander
/liːˈændɚ/
"leander" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Leander” is uncommon English (frequency #50,039 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,039
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The lover of Hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet her, and finally was drowned.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leander · Leander · English
Leander · rank #50,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,039
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lemieux
Nearest frequency peer: Lemieux (+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 “Leander”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- languish
languish
49,967 corpus weight
- larch
larch
49,966 corpus weight
- Leander
Leander
49,962 corpus weight
- Lemieux
Lemieux
49,960 corpus weight
- li'l
li'l
49,959 corpus weight
- Likens
Likens
49,958 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Leander” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leander |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /liːˈændɚ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Leander” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Leander is uncommon English at frequency #50,039 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /liːˈændɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Leander in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). The correct English form is Leander, spelled L-E-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1The lover of Hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet her, and finally was drowned.
- 2A male given name from Ancient Greek, also of a Spanish sixth century saint.
- 3A city in Williamson County, Texas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Leander appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
This word in other languages
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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