leche
[ˈlet͡ʃe]
The verdict
“leche” is uncommon French (frequency #54,071 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,071
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lait (produit par les femelles de mammifères).
Corpus desk
Index FR-leche · leche · French
leche · rank #54,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,071
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Leblond
Nearest frequency peer: Leblond (-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 « leche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lambeau
lambeau
45,934 corpus weight
- lando
lando
45,933 corpus weight
- Leblond
Leblond
45,931 corpus weight
- leche
leche
45,930 corpus weight
- Ligurie
Ligurie
45,929 corpus weight
- linéarité
linéarité
45,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlet͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leche is uncommon French at frequency #54,071 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlet͡ʃe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leche, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is leche, spelled L-E-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Lait (produit par les femelles de mammifères).
- 2Sperme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esta vaca produce una leche de muy buena calidad.
Dulce de leche.
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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