leisure
/ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/noun
leisure is spelled L-E-I-S-U-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is liesure: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Leisure is a noun meaning “Freedom provided by the cessation of activities”. The plural of leisure is leisures.
How many letters and syllables are in leisure?
| Letters | 7: L-E-I-S-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, liesure, about 240 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell leisure?
Leisure is spelled L-E-I-S-U-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for leisure in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is leisure?
Leisure appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce leisure?
- /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/
- /ˈliːʒə(ɹ)/
- /ˈliʒɚ/
Leisure has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-leisure.ogg, En-us-leisure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of leisure
- leisures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does leisure mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
- 2
Free time, time free from work or duties.
- 3
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Leisure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | loisir , temps libre |
| German | Muße , Freizeit |
| Portuguese | lazer, ócio , tempo livre |
| Spanish | ocio , tiempo libre |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does leisure come from?
From Middle English leyser, from Anglo-Norman leisir, variant of Old French loisir (“to enjoy oneself”) (Modern French loisir survives as a noun), substantive use of a verb, from Latin licēre (“be permitted”). Displaced native Old English ǣmetta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).