leet
/liːt/
"leet" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leet” is uncommon English (frequency #75,149 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,149
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leet · leet · English
leet · rank #75,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,149
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH Leclair
Nearest frequency peer: Leclair (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “leet”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- LDAP
LDAP
24,855 corpus weight
- lecithin
lecithin
24,854 corpus weight
- Leclair
Leclair
24,853 corpus weight
- leet
leet
24,852 corpus weight
- legalism
legalism
24,851 corpus weight
- Leitrim
Leitrim
24,850 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “leet” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /liːt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
leet is uncommon English at frequency #75,149 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /liːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for leet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite. The correct English form is leet, spelled L-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.
Etymology
From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.