les
[les]
The verdict
“les” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #101) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #101
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del dativo de ellos. Dativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona en género masculino o femenino y número plural. No admite preposición y se puede usar como sufijo: LES di; daLES. Es grav...
Corpus desk
Index ES-les · les · Spanish
les · rank #101 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #101
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH año
Nearest frequency peer: año (-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 “les”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- mundo
mundo
99,904 corpus weight
- va
va
99,903 corpus weight
- año
año
99,901 corpus weight
- les
les
99,900 corpus weight
- otro
otro
99,898 corpus weight
- otros
otros
99,897 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “les” 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 | les |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [les] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “les”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for les is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "li", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [les]. Frequency #101 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del dativo de ellos. Dativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona en género masculino o femenino y número plural. No admite preposición y se puede usar como sufijo: LES di; daLES. Es grav...".
les 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is les, spelled L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del dativo de ellos. Dativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona en género masculino o femenino y número plural. No admite preposición y se puede usar como sufijo: LES di; daLES. Es grave incorrección emplear en este caso para el género masculino la forma los, propia del acusativo, y en femenino tampoco debe emplearse la forma las, aunque lo hayan hecho escritores de nota.
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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