leave me alone
"leave-me-alone" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leave me alone” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leave me alone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leave me alone” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for leave me alone is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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).
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 me alone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-E-A-V-E- -M-E- -A-L-O-N-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.