# leigh

> English word · Noun · IPA /liː/ · frequency rank #10,388

## Definitions
1. A meadow.

## Etymology
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.

## Easily confused with
- **LIGA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-liga)
- **light** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-light)
- **Luigi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-luigi)
- **Leila** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-leila)
- **Leith** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-leith)
- **lough** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-lough)
- **length** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-length)
- **li** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leigh-vs-li)
- **leg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leg-vs-leigh)
- **lei** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lei-vs-leigh)
- **Leh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leh-vs-leigh)
- **legs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/legs-vs-leigh)
- **Lego** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lego-vs-leigh)
- **Leah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leah-vs-leigh)
- **Leia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leia-vs-leigh)
- **laugh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/laugh-vs-leigh)
- **leash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leash-vs-leigh)
- **ledge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ledge-vs-leigh)
- **leach** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leach-vs-leigh)
- **leech** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leech-vs-leigh)

## Common misspellings (7)
`eligh`, `legih`, `leiggh`, `leighh`, `leihg`, `liegh`, `lleigh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/leigh