looseleaf
noun, adjective
looseleaf is a noun meaning “Lined paper, usually collected in a binder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-O-S-E-L-E-A-F, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does looseleaf mean?
noun
- 1
Lined paper, usually collected in a binder.
adjective
- 1
Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
All the pages fell out of my looseleaf notebook.
- 2
Of tea: supplied as whole tea leaves rather than teabags.
- 3
Of lettuce: having loosely bunched leaves.
Looseleaf lettuce is popularly used in salads.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce looseleaf?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-looseleaf.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is looseleaf?
Looseleaf appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Where does looseleaf come from?
From loose + leaf (“sheet of a book, magazine, etc.”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).