leads
\lid\
The verdict
“leads” is uncommon French (frequency #62,406 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,406
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lead.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leads · leads · French
leads · rank #62,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,406
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lançais
Nearest frequency peer: lançais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « leads »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Krauss
Krauss
37,599 corpus weight
- Lafargue
Lafargue
37,597 corpus weight
- lançais
lançais
37,596 corpus weight
- leads
leads
37,595 corpus weight
- leben
leben
37,594 corpus weight
- lets
lets
37,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leads » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leads |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leads » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leads is uncommon French at frequency #62,406 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lead.".
leads doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is leads, spelled L-E-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lead.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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