leche
/ˈletʃe/
The verdict
“leche” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,552 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,552
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leite
Corpus desk
Index PT-leche · leche · Portuguese
leche · rank #80,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,552
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH letão
Nearest frequency peer: letão (+3 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “leche”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Jacobo
Jacobo
19,478 corpus weight
- janvier
janvier
19,475 corpus weight
- leche
leche
19,449 corpus weight
- letão
letão
19,446 corpus weight
- likely
likely
19,441 corpus weight
- magistralme…
magistralmente
19,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “leche” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leche |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈletʃe/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “leche” em português
Rare enough to double-check
leche is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,552 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈletʃe/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for leche, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is leche, spelled L-E-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1leite
- 2porra; esperma
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¿Quiere ahora el agua o la leche?
La leche está fría
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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