leis
The verdict
“leis” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #92,113 in Spanish word frequency and used as a preposition.
- #92,113
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Forma combinada de la preposición le y el pronombre personal masculino de tercera persona singular.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leis” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for leis is 4 letters long, classified as a preposition. Corpus data places it at rank #92,113 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma combinada de la preposición le y el pronombre personal masculino de tercera persona singular.".
No misspelling variants are generated for leis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 leis, spelled L-E-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma combinada de la preposición le y el pronombre personal masculino de tercera persona singular.
Frequency rank: #92,113 in Spanish
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Using “leis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-E-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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