le
The verdict
“le” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,016 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an article.
- #2,016
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - partícula gramatical usada antes de substantivos ou palavras substantivadas; por geral indica uma coisa em particular
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) |
Where “le” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for le is 2 letters long, classified as an article. Corpus data places it at rank #2,016 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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.
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Using “le”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ls” - see the side-by-side comparison. le vs ls
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.