leen
\ˈleː.ɛn\
The verdict
“leen” is uncommon French (frequency #96,075 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,075
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe leañ/leiñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leen · leen · French
leen · rank #96,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,075
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lavoro
Nearest frequency peer: lavoro (-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 « leen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lausannoise
lausannoise
3,929 corpus weight
- lavette
lavette
3,928 corpus weight
- lavoro
lavoro
3,927 corpus weight
- leen
leen
3,926 corpus weight
- lef
lef
3,925 corpus weight
- legge
legge
3,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈleː.ɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leen is uncommon French at frequency #96,075 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈleː.ɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe leañ/leiñ.".
No misspelling variants are generated for leen in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 leen, spelled L-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe leañ/leiñ.
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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