# leasing

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈliːzɪŋ/ · frequency rank #13,947

## Definitions
1. A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.

## Etymology
From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).

## Easily confused with
- **losing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-losing)
- **leaving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-leaving)
- **letting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-letting)
- **loading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-loading)
- **lending** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-lending)
- **Lessing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-lessing)
- **loaning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leasing-vs-loaning)
- **Laing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/laing-vs-leasing)
- **laying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/laying-vs-leasing)
- **lacing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lacing-vs-leasing)
- **leading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leading-vs-leasing)
- **lasting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lasting-vs-leasing)
- **leaning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leaning-vs-leasing)
- **leaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leaking-vs-leasing)
- **Lansing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lansing-vs-leasing)
- **leaping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leaping-vs-leasing)
- **lashing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lashing-vs-leasing)
- **learning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/learning-vs-leasing)
- **leaching** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leaching-vs-leasing)

## Common misspellings (10)
`elasing`, `laesing`, `leaisng`, `leasign`, `leasingg`, `leasinng`, `leasnig`, `leassing`, `lesaing`, `lleasing`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/leasing