Leal
[leˈal]
The verdict
“Leal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,698) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,698
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-leal · Leal · Spanish
Leal · rank #6,698 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,698
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH latinos
Nearest frequency peer: latinos (-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 “Leal”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Johnson
Johnson
93,306 corpus weight
- latinos
latinos
93,304 corpus weight
- Leal
Leal
93,303 corpus weight
- mascota
mascota
93,301 corpus weight
- master
master
93,300 corpus weight
- mentales
mentales
93,299 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Leal” 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 | Leal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [leˈal] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Leal”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Leal is neighbouring look-alikes ("ll", "les", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [leˈal]. Frequency #6,698 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leal, with forms such as "lael", "leall", and "lleal". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ll", "les", "ley", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Leal, spelled L-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lael
- leall
- lleal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Leal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).