leen
[ˈleẽn]
The verdict
“leen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,402) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,402
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de leer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-leen · leen · Spanish
leen · rank #8,402 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,402
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH laboratorios
Nearest frequency peer: laboratorios (-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 “leen”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- irónico
irónico
91,604 corpus weight
- Jacob
Jacob
91,603 corpus weight
- laboratorios
laboratorios
91,600 corpus weight
- leen
leen
91,599 corpus weight
- licenciatura
licenciatura
91,597 corpus weight
- little
little
91,596 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “leen” 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 | leen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈleẽn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “leen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for leen is neighbouring look-alikes ("les", "ley", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈleẽn]. Frequency #8,402 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de leer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for leen, with forms such as "elen", "leenn", and "lene". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is leen, spelled L-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de leer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elen
- leenn
- lene
- lleen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leen - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).