leas
[ˈleas]
The verdict
“leas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,168) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,168
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de subjuntivo de leer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-leas · leas · Spanish
leas · rank #14,168 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,168
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH Ismael
Nearest frequency peer: Ismael (-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 “leas”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- inmune
inmune
85,837 corpus weight
- intensas
intensas
85,836 corpus weight
- intensos
intensos
85,835 corpus weight
- Ismael
Ismael
85,834 corpus weight
- leas
leas
85,833 corpus weight
- lesa
lesa
85,832 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “leas” 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 | leas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈleas] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “leas”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for leas is neighbouring look-alikes ("los", "les", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈleas]. Frequency #14,168 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de subjuntivo de leer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for leas, with forms such as "laes", "leass", and "lleas". 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, "los", "les", "ley", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is leas, spelled L-E-A-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de subjuntivo de leer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- laes
- leass
- lleas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leas - 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 "leas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).