Which to use
“late” is a verb and “leave” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #12,276
- “late” frequency rank
- #15,377
- “leave” frequency rank
- 27653
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | late | leave |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | terceira pessoa do presente do indicativo do verbo latir | permissão para deixar o posto |
Letter map: late vs leave
Shared letters muted; letters that set late and leave apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.
Part-of-speech tell for late / leave
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: late is averb and leaveanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27653, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
late is recorded at frequency rank #12,276, classified as averb. leave is at rank #15,377, tagged as anoun, pronounced /liːv/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 27653, this pair ranks #41,299 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of late vs leave
Shared letters: ael. Private to "late": t. Private to "leave": v.
"late" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "leave" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "late" for "leave" ever safe?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "late" or "leave" show up more?
After this comparison
You've compared "late" and "leave". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "late" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "leave" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #41,299 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "late" and "leave" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "least vs leave". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #41,299 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.