lean
[ˈlĩn] (sustantivo)
The verdict
“lean” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,135) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,135
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bebida de drogas recreativas, la cual es preparada mezclando jarabe para la tos o resfriado con receta médica que contiene codeína y prometazina con refresco y dulces.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lean · lean · Spanish
lean · rank #8,135 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,135
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH journal
Nearest frequency peer: journal (-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 “lean”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- instancias
instancias
91,869 corpus weight
- integrante
integrante
91,868 corpus weight
- journal
journal
91,867 corpus weight
- lean
lean
91,866 corpus weight
- leyendas
leyendas
91,865 corpus weight
- LGBT
LGBT
91,864 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lean” 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 | lean |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlĩn] (sustantivo) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lean”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lean is neighbouring look-alikes ("les", "ley", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlĩn] (sustantivo). Frequency #8,135 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Bebida de drogas recreativas, la cual es preparada mezclando jarabe para la tos o resfriado con receta médica que contiene codeína y prometazina con refresco y dulces.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for lean, with forms such as "elan", "laen", and "leann". 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, "les", "ley", "lei", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is lean, spelled L-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Bebida de drogas recreativas, la cual es preparada mezclando jarabe para la tos o resfriado con receta médica que contiene codeína y prometazina con refresco y dulces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tres L de Sprite, dos L de lean, mis niggas van high, morados like me. Dame seis ceros, te cobro diez mil, salimos ready con todo mi team.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elan
- laen
- leann
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lean - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "lean", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).