Lehi
/ˈliːhaɪ/
"lehi" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lehi” is uncommon English (frequency #76,057 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,057
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place in Biblical Judah, mentioned in Judges 15:9.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lehi · Lehi · English
Lehi · rank #76,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,057
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leghorn
Nearest frequency peer: Leghorn (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Lehi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Largs
Largs
23,948 corpus weight
- laters
laters
23,947 corpus weight
- Lebeau
Lebeau
23,946 corpus weight
- Leghorn
Leghorn
23,945 corpus weight
- Lehi
Lehi
23,944 corpus weight
- Letterkenny
Letterkenny
23,942 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lehi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lehi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈliːhaɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lehi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lehi is uncommon English at frequency #76,057 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈliːhaɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lehi, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Lehi, spelled L-E-H-I.
Definition
- 1A place in Biblical Judah, mentioned in Judges 15:9.
- 2A prophet in the Book of Mormon, the father of Laman, Lemuel, Nephi, Sam, Jacob, and Joseph.
- 3A city in Utah.
- 4A Jewish paramilitary organization in the British Mandate of Palestine (1940–48), affiliated with the Revisionist Zionist movement.
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.
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