lea
[ˈlea]
The verdict
“lea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,323) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,323
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de leer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lea · lea · Spanish
lea · rank #5,323 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,323
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lamentablemen…
Nearest frequency peer: lamentablemente (-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 “lea”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- integridad
integridad
94,681 corpus weight
- Juárez
Juárez
94,680 corpus weight
- lamentablem…
lamentablemente
94,679 corpus weight
- lea
lea
94,678 corpus weight
- lealtad
lealtad
94,677 corpus weight
- lecciones
lecciones
94,676 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lea” 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 | lea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlea] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lea”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lea is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "li", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈlea]. Frequency #5,323 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lea, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "li", "Lu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is lea, spelled L-E-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de leer.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de leer.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de leer.
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.
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