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In this article, we’ll lead you through the differences between lead and led, explain why lead is considered an irregular verb, and give examples of how lead and led are used in sentences.

As an irregular verb, lead (pronounced ) has many different meanings, including very commonly used senses such as “to show the way,” “to guide,” “to cause,” “to bring,” “to command,” and “to have top position or first place in.”

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When used this way, lead is considered an irregular verb because its past tense and past participle form is led (not leaded).

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Lead can also be used as a noun with many different meanings relating to people or things being in a foremost position. For these senses, it’s pronounced .

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The confusion around the words lead and led is likely due to the fact that lead is also used as a noun in the sense of the metal. This sense of lead is pronounced identically to led, which can be especially confusing in speech when you can’t see the different spellings.

There is also a much less commonly used verb sense of lead (pronounced ) that relates to using the metal lead in some way, such as by treating them with it or adding it to them. This sense is a regular verb—the past tense and past participle form is leaded.

You can avoid some confusion by remembering that the word led is only ever used as the past tense or past participle of lead.

Another verb that can follow the same pattern as the irregular verb lead is plead. However, plead can use pled or pleaded as its past tense and past participle form.

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The irregular verb read (pronounced ) changes pronunciation for its past tense and past participle form, but not spelling: it continues to be spelled read, but it’s pronounced .

Although it’s spelled slightly differently, the irregular verb lead follows a conjugation pattern similar to a number of irregular verbs that end in -eed and rhyme with it. These change in both spelling and pronunciation for their past tense and past participle forms.

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Let’s look at some example sentences that show the different ways that lead and led are used.

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