lesa
[ˈlesa]
The verdict
“lesa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,169) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,169
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de leso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lesa · lesa · Spanish
lesa · rank #14,169 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,169
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH leas
Nearest frequency peer: leas (-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 “lesa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- intensas
intensas
85,836 corpus weight
- intensos
intensos
85,835 corpus weight
- Ismael
Ismael
85,834 corpus weight
- leas
leas
85,833 corpus weight
- lesa
lesa
85,832 corpus weight
- liberados
liberados
85,829 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lesa” 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 | lesa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈlesa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lesa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lesa is neighbouring look-alikes ("los", "ley", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈlesa]. Frequency #14,169 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de leso.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for lesa, with forms such as "lessa", "llesa", and "lsea". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "los", "ley", "let", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is lesa, spelled L-E-S-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de leso.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lessa
- llesa
- lsea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lesa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lesa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).