leo
\ˈleː.o\
The verdict
“leo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,874) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,874
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe leañ/leiñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leo · leo · French
leo · rank #8,874 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,874
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laurence
Nearest frequency peer: Laurence (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « leo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- IP
IP
91,130 corpus weight
- jurispruden…
jurisprudence
91,129 corpus weight
- Laurence
Laurence
91,128 corpus weight
- leo
leo
91,127 corpus weight
- lignée
lignée
91,126 corpus weight
- limitation
limitation
91,125 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « leo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | leo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈleː.o\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « leo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for leo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "Li", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈleː.o\. Frequency #8,874 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe leañ/leiñ.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "Li", "LR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is leo, spelled L-E-O.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur 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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