leis

prep

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.

Key facts for leis
PropertyValue
Headwordleis
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPreposition
Letters4
Frequency rank#92,113
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “leis” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). leis lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Forma combinada de la preposición le y el pronombre personal masculino de tercera persona singular.

Frequency rank: #92,113 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leis"?
"leis" is spelled L-E-I-S.
What does "leis" mean?
As a preposition, "leis" means: Forma combinada de la preposición le y el pronombre personal masculino de tercera persona singular.
What language does "leis" come from?
"leis" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.
  • Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words

Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.