leone

noun

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The verdict

“leone” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,405
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devise officielle de la Sierra Leone depuis 1964.

Corpus desk

Index FR-leone · leone · French

leone · rank #16,405 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,405
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH longévité

Nearest frequency peer: longévité (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « leone »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « leone » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

leone vs long
60% similar
leone vs Lyon
40% similar
leone vs lune
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for leone
PropertyValue
Headwordleone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#16,405
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « leone »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).leonese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « longévité » (#16,406), « kill » (#16,403), « lâcheté » (#16,407). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « leone » est au #16,405. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around leone, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,405 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Devise officielle de la Sierra Leone depuis 1964.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for leone, with forms such as "elone", "lenoe", and "leoen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "long", "Lyon", "lune", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is leone, spelled L-E-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Devise officielle de la Sierra Leone depuis 1964.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how leone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un leone est divisé en cent cents.
  2. Aux Finances, c’est lui qui, le 4 août 1964, introduisit le leone, la monnaie nationale indexée alors à parité sur la livre sterling, et créa la Banque de Sierra Leone.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • elone
  • lenoe
  • leoen
  • leonne
  • lleone
  • loene

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leone - 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.

elone2lenoe2leoen2leonne1lleone1loene2
Edit distance from "leone"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leone"?
"leone" is spelled L-E-O-N-E.
What does "leone" mean?
As a noun, "leone" means: Devise officielle de la Sierra Leone depuis 1964.
What words are commonly confused with "leone"?
"leone" is commonly confused with "long", "Lyon", "lune". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "leone" come from?
"leone" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leone", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

meufs#16,418Népal#16,428Paula#16,442punch#16,456

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

hold6 variantsflow6 variantsbowl6 variantsbits6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list