leap
/liːp/
"leap" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leap” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,808. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,808
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To jump.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leap · leap · English
leap · rank #7,808 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,808
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lance
Nearest frequency peer: lance (-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 “leap”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- jun
jun
92,196 corpus weight
- junction
junction
92,195 corpus weight
- lance
lance
92,194 corpus weight
- leap
leap
92,193 corpus weight
- locate
locate
92,192 corpus weight
- locks
locks
92,191 corpus weight
What this shows “leap” 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 | leap |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /liːp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “leap”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around leap (IPA /liːp/), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,808 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for leap, with forms such as "elap", "laep", and "leapp". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "let", "LED", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop. Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Sate… The correct English form is leap, spelled L-E-A-P.
Definition
- 1To jump.
- 2To pass over by a leap or jump.
- 3To copulate with (a female beast)
- 4To copulate with (a human)
- 5To cause to leap.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
Etymology
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop. Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe (“to run”), Swedish löpa (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elap
- laep
- leapp
- lepa
- lleap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leap - 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 misspelling depth
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