le
[le]
The verdict
“le” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativo de los pronombres personales de tercera persona él, ella y ello.
Corpus desk
Index ES-le · le · Spanish
le · rank #30 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #30
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH mi
Nearest frequency peer: mi (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “le”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- o
o
99,973 corpus weight
- mi
mi
99,972 corpus weight
- le
le
99,971 corpus weight
- este
este
99,970 corpus weight
- sus
sus
99,969 corpus weight
- esta
esta
99,968 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “le” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | le |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [le] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “le”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for le is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "li", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [le]. Frequency #30 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
le doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "li", "Lu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is le, spelled L-E.
Definition
- 1Dativo de los pronombres personales de tercera persona él, ella y ello.
- 2Acusativo de los pronombres personales de tercera persona él y ella.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.