leave me alone
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leave me alone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leave me alone” in English
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
- 1stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leave me alone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Why can't you just leave me alone for once?!
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.