lei
[ˈlej]
The verdict
“lei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,485) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,485
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corona de flores que adorna el cuello y que se obsequia al llegar o marchar como símbolo de afecto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lei · lei · Spanish
lei · rank #9,485 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,485
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH legislativas
Nearest frequency peer: legislativas (-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 “lei”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- justos
justos
90,519 corpus weight
- lazo
lazo
90,518 corpus weight
- legislativas
legislativas
90,517 corpus weight
- lei
lei
90,516 corpus weight
- leyó
leyó
90,515 corpus weight
- liberalismo
liberalismo
90,514 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lei” 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 | lei |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlej] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lei”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lei is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "li", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlej]. Frequency #9,485 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Corona de flores que adorna el cuello y que se obsequia al llegar o marchar como símbolo de afecto.".
lei has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "li", "Lu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is lei, spelled L-E-I.
Definition
- 1Corona de flores que adorna el cuello y que se obsequia al llegar o marchar como símbolo de afecto.
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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