les
/lɛz/
"les" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“les” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,067) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,067
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of lesbian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-les · les · English
les · rank #6,067 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,067
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lemon
Nearest frequency peer: lemon (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “les”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- jurisdiction
jurisdiction
93,937 corpus weight
- laughter
laughter
93,936 corpus weight
- lemon
lemon
93,935 corpus weight
- les
les
93,934 corpus weight
- lifted
lifted
93,933 corpus weight
- loading
loading
93,932 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “les” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | les |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /lɛz/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “les”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for les is neighbouring look-alikes ("li", "Lt", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /lɛz/. Frequency #6,067 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Clipping of lesbian.".
les doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "li", "Lt", "lo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is les, spelled L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Clipping of lesbian.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how les appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her posts would frequently feature her as a half-naked giantess, complete with her deliciously soft belly and bare breasts. Some of her photos would have her feminine penis in view, nonchalantly exposed against her thighs. It was beautiful, unquestionably les, and an incredibly rare opportunity for me (then pre-transition) to see how hormone replacement t…
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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