leopard
/ˈlɛp.ɚd/noun
leopard is spelled L-E-O-P-A-R-D. The wrong spelling people search most is lepard: about 260 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 82 of all searches for the word. Leopard is a noun meaning “A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)”. The plural of leopard is leopards.
How many letters and syllables are in leopard?
| Letters | 7: L-E-O-P-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lepard, about 260 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell leopard?
Leopard is spelled L-E-O-P-A-R-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 82 of the searches for leopard 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 leopard?
Leopard appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 leopard?
- UK /ˈlɛp.əd/
- US /ˈlɛp.ɚd/
Leopard 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-us-leopard.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with leopard?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as leopard from its last stressed vowel (/ɛpəɹd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: preload.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of leopard
- leopards plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does leopard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
- 2
The male of the species P. pardus, as distinguished from a leopardess.
- 3
A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
- 4
A clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa or Neofelis diardi), a large wild cat native to Asia.
- 5
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
- 6
A lion passant guardant.
- 7
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Leopard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus:
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 leopard come from?
From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian [script needed] (palang), Khwarezmian [script needed] (plyk), Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).