lea

Other forms of lea

plural

leas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lea

What does lea mean?

lea means "a unit of length of thread or yarn". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lea?

lea has 1 syllable: lea. In IPA it is /ˈli/.

What is another word for lea?

Close synonyms include pasture, pastureland, grazing land, ley. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lea a common word?

lea is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lea?

42 words rhyme with lea. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.