leave aside
"leave-aside" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leave aside” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To not talk about a topic so as to allow full consideration to something else.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leave aside |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leave aside” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
leave aside is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To not talk about a topic so as to allow full consideration to something else.".
Zero misspellings are on record for leave aside in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 leave aside, spelled L-E-A-V-E- -A-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1To not talk about a topic so as to allow full consideration to something else.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “leave aside”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-E-A-V-E- -A-S-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.