Leite
"leite" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Leite” is uncommon English (frequency #99,496 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,496
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leite · Leite · English
Leite · rank #99,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,496
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH Lehane
Nearest frequency peer: Lehane (-3 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 “Leite”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- leat
leat
511 corpus weight
- Lebaron
Lebaron
510 corpus weight
- Lehane
Lehane
508 corpus weight
- Leite
Leite
505 corpus weight
- Leytonstone
Leytonstone
502 corpus weight
- Liesel
Liesel
501 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Leite” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Leite” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Leite is uncommon English at frequency #99,496 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Leite in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a German surname, from the female personal name Aleite, shortened from the name Adelheid. * As a Norwegian surname, from the name of several farmsteads in Norway, from Old Norse leiti (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hliþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley… The correct English form is Leite, spelled L-E-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As a German surname, from the female personal name Aleite, shortened from the name Adelheid. * As a Norwegian surname, from the name of several farmsteads in Norway, from Old Norse leiti (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hliþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean, slope”). * As a Portuguese surname, from the noun leite (“milk”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 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.