le
The verdict
“le” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,016) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,016
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - partícula gramatical usada antes de substantivos ou palavras substantivadas; por geral indica uma coisa em particular
Corpus desk
Index PT-le · le · Portuguese
le · rank #2,016 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,016
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH inferno
Nearest frequency peer: inferno (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “le”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fomos
fomos
97,989 corpus weight
- grau
grau
97,987 corpus weight
- inferno
inferno
97,986 corpus weight
- le
le
97,985 corpus weight
- musical
musical
97,983 corpus weight
- parede
parede
97,981 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “le” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | le |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “le”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for le is neighbouring look-alikes ("ls", "ló", …), not just typos; it is anarticle. Frequency #2,016 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "partícula gramatical usada antes de substantivos ou palavras substantivadas; por geral indica uma coisa em particular".
No generated misspelling entries exist for le in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ls", "ló", "lhe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is le, spelled L-E.
Definition
- 1partícula gramatical usada antes de substantivos ou palavras substantivadas; por geral indica uma coisa em particular
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how le appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pelo direito e orgulho de ser heterossexual no terceiro domingo de dezembro
O grimório dos destinos sombrios
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.