leis
/leɪz/
"leis" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leis” is uncommon English (frequency #77,862 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,862
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of lei
Corpus desk
Index EN-leis · leis · English
leis · rank #77,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,862
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leftmost
Nearest frequency peer: leftmost (-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 “leis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- leached
leached
22,143 corpus weight
- leftmost
leftmost
22,140 corpus weight
- leis
leis
22,139 corpus weight
- Lemar
Lemar
22,138 corpus weight
- LIGO
LIGO
22,136 corpus weight
- Lindquist
Lindquist
22,135 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /leɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leis is uncommon English at frequency #77,862 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /leɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of lei".
No generated misspelling entries exist for leis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is leis, spelled L-E-I-S.
Definition
- 1plural of lei
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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