le vs leg, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“le” is an article and “leg” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,016
“le” frequency rank: #33,059
“leg” frequency rank: 35075
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	le	leg
Definition	partícula gramatical usada antes de substantivos ou palavras substantivadas; por geral indica uma coisa em particular	perna

Letter map: le vs leg

Shared letters muted; letters that set le and leg apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch

3 ch

leg

Part-of-speech tell for le / leg

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: le is anarticle and leganoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “le” sits inside “leg”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35075, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

le is recorded at frequency rank #2,016, classified as anarticle. leg is at rank #33,059, tagged as anoun, pronounced /lɛɡ/.

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 35075, this pair ranks #32,032 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of le vs leg

Shared letters: el. Private to "le": -. Private to "leg": g.

"le" · 2 letters · shape CV · "leg" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "le" for "leg" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "le" is an article and "leg" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "le" vs "leg" - which ranks higher?

"le" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,016 in our Portuguese list, against #33,059 for "leg". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "le" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "leg" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #32,032 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"le" and "leg" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "leg vs Lied". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #32,032 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.