leave me alone

phrase

"leave-me-alone" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“leave me alone” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).

Corpus desk

Index EN-leave-me-alone · leave me alone · English

leave me alone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for leave me alone
PropertyValue
Headwordleave me alone
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechPhrase
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “leave me alone” in English

leave me aloneranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

leave me alone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for leave me alone, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 me alone, spelled L-E-A-V-E- -M-E- -A-L-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how leave me alone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Why can't you just leave me alone for once?!
  2. I'll be fine; please just leave me alone for a bit.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leave me alone"?
"leave me alone" is spelled L-E-A-V-E- -M-E- -A-L-O-N-E.
What does "leave me alone" mean?
As a phrase, "leave me alone" means: stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).
What language does "leave me alone" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list