leu
French, noun\lø\
leu is spelled L-E-U (3 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leu is a French masculine noun meaning “leu (currency of Romania)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité monétaire de la Roumanie, divisée en 100 bani”.
What does leu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineleu (currency of Romania)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité monétaire de la Roumanie, divisée en 100 bani. 2. Unité monétaire de la Moldavie, divisée en 100 bani.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of leu
- lei plural
- leus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce leu?
- \lø\
- \le.u\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is leu in French?
leu appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).