leashed
/liːʃt/
"leashed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leashed” is uncommon English (frequency #83,449 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,449
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of leash
Corpus desk
Index EN-leashed · leashed · English
leashed · rank #83,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,449
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leilani
Nearest frequency peer: Leilani (+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 “leashed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lapp
Lapp
16,558 corpus weight
- laudatory
laudatory
16,556 corpus weight
- laughingly
laughingly
16,555 corpus weight
- leashed
leashed
16,552 corpus weight
- Leilani
Leilani
16,551 corpus weight
- lewdness
lewdness
16,546 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leashed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leashed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /liːʃt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leashed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leashed is uncommon English at frequency #83,449 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /liːʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of leash".
leashed doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is leashed, spelled L-E-A-S-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of leash
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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