leño
[ˈleɲo]
The verdict
“leño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,436 among 17,327 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,436
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,327
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pedazo de tronco de un árbol cortado y desramado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-leno · leño · Spanish
leño · rank #62,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,436
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,327
- PHOTO-FINISH lehendakari
Nearest frequency peer: lehendakari (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “leño”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lamentándose
lamentándose
37,573 corpus weight
- Lanz
Lanz
37,572 corpus weight
- legitimados
legitimados
37,568 corpus weight
- lehendakari
lehendakari
37,567 corpus weight
- leño
leño
37,565 corpus weight
- Llerena
Llerena
37,557 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “leño” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈleɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leño” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
leño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,436 among 17,327 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈleɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for leño, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is leño, spelled L-E-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Pedazo de tronco de un árbol cortado y desramado.
- 2Parte más consistente del tallo de los vegetales.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.