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 May 6, 2026) - A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parental leave |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parental leave” sits in English frequency
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.
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.
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Using “parental leave”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-A-R-E-N-T-A-L- -L-E-A-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.