leashes
/ˈliːʃɪz/
"leashes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leashes” is uncommon English (frequency #58,807 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,807
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of leash
Corpus desk
Index EN-leashes · leashes · English
leashes · rank #58,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,807
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lebedev
Nearest frequency peer: Lebedev (+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 “leashes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lanceolate
lanceolate
41,197 corpus weight
- leashes
leashes
41,194 corpus weight
- Lebedev
Lebedev
41,193 corpus weight
- lier
lier
41,191 corpus weight
- littler
littler
41,189 corpus weight
- Lockerbie
Lockerbie
41,188 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leashes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leashes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈliːʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leashes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leashes is uncommon English at frequency #58,807 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈliːʃɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of leash".
leashes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 leashes, spelled L-E-A-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural 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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