leste
\lɛst\
The verdict
“leste” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,192
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de la facilité, de la légèreté dans ses mouvements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leste · leste · French
leste · rank #49,192 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,192
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liker
Nearest frequency peer: liker (+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 « leste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- larbins
larbins
50,813 corpus weight
- lavages
lavages
50,812 corpus weight
- leste
leste
50,809 corpus weight
- liker
liker
50,808 corpus weight
- looser
looser
50,807 corpus weight
- Loretta
Loretta
50,806 corpus weight
What this shows « leste » 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 | leste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « leste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around leste (IPA \lɛst\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,192 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for leste, with forms such as "elste", "leset", and "lesste". 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, "lise", "list", "lost", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 leste, spelled L-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la facilité, de la légèreté dans ses mouvements.
- 2Qui est adroit, prompt à trouver des expédients pour terminer une affaire.
- 3Rusé, peu scrupuleux sur les principes, les égards et les convenances.
- 4Qui manque de respect, de courtoisie ou qui dénote un mépris des convenances.
- 5Très libre ; inconvenant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il marche d’un pas leste.
Avec ce vêtement chaud et léger, on se sent très leste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elste
- leset
- lesste
- lestte
- letse
- lleste
- lsete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).