leant
/ˈlɛnt/
"leant" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leant” is uncommon English (frequency #57,513 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,513
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of lean
Corpus desk
Index EN-leant · leant · English
leant · rank #57,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,513
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leaguer
Nearest frequency peer: leaguer (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “leant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- lemongrass
lemongrass
42,485 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈlɛnt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leant is uncommon English at frequency #57,513 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈlɛnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of lean".
No misspelling variants are generated for leant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is leant, spelled L-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of lean
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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