parental leave
"parental-leave" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parental leave” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parental-leave · parental leave · English
parental leave · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parental leave |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parental leave” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parental leave is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parental leave, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is parental leave, spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-A-L- -L-E-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parental leave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Both my husband and I are on a 3-month parental leave while we look after our newborn baby.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.