Leslie
\lɛs.li\
The verdict
“Leslie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,500
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin ou masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leslie · Leslie · French
Leslie · rank #14,500 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,500
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lane
Nearest frequency peer: lane (-2 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 « Leslie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Judith
Judith
85,505 corpus weight
- laissa
laissa
85,504 corpus weight
- lane
lane
85,503 corpus weight
- Leslie
Leslie
85,501 corpus weight
- loir
loir
85,499 corpus weight
- luxembourge…
luxembourgeois
85,498 corpus weight
What this shows « Leslie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Leslie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛs.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Leslie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Leslie (IPA \lɛs.li\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,500 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin ou masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leslie, with forms such as "elslie", "lelsie", and "lesile". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Lisle", "leste", "lessive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Leslie, spelled L-E-S-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin ou masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Leslie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois mois après avoir disparu dans les Deux-Sèvres, ce sont bien Leslie Hoorelbeke et Kevin Trompat dont les corps ont été retrouvés en Charente-Maritime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elslie
- lelsie
- lesile
- leslei
- lesllie
- lesslie
- lleslie
- lselie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leslie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).