leche
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,580
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
leche is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia líquida de color blanco y de alto valor nutritivo que se produce en las mamas de las hembras de los mamíferos para alimentar a sus crías. Para consumo humano es común emplear la producida... Pronounced [ˈlet͡ʃe]. It ranks #1,580 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with leve and Luce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlet͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for leche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlet͡ʃe]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,580 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for leche, with forms such as "lcehe", "lecche", and "leceh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "leve", "Luce", "lucha", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is leche, spelled L-E-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia líquida de color blanco y de alto valor nutritivo que se produce en las mamas de las hembras de los mamíferos para alimentar a sus crías. Para consumo humano es común emplear la producida por vacas, ovejas, búfalas o cabras.
- 2Por extensión, zumo blanco que tienen algunas plantas, frutos o semillas.
- 3Primera enseñanza que se da a un niño.
- 4Suerte o fortuna que tiene uno en algún asunto, especialmente si muy favorable.
- 5Líquido viscoso y blanquecino producido por las glándulas del tracto urogenital masculino que es excretado por el pene durante la eyaculación que acompaña al orgasmo del macho de los mamíferos.
- 6Preparado cosmético de consistencia cremosa y ligera.
- 7Golpe que se hace en la cara con la palma de la mano.
- 8Golpe fortuito.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lcehe,lecche,leceh,lechhe,lehce,lleche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for leche
Misspelling Variants of "leche"
Frequency rank: #1,580 in Spanish
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