legovsloWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: lego is a verb, lo is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“lego” is a verb and “lo” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,085
“lego” frequency rank
#11,924
“lo” frequency rank
23009
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lego lo
Definition 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare siehe!, seht!, schaut an!

Letter map: lego vs lo

Shared letters muted; letters that set lego and lo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
lego
2 ch
lo

Part-of-speech tell for lego / lo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lego is averb and loanintj. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23009, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lego is recorded at frequency rank #11,085, classified as averb, pronounced […]. lo is at rank #11,924, tagged as anintj, pronounced […].

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 23009, this pair ranks #1,866,913 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lego vs lo

Shared letters: lo. Private to "lego": eg. Private to "lo": -.

"lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "lo" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • legoelgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "lego" and "lo" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lego" is a verb and "lo" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "lego" or "lo" show up more?
"lego" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,085 in our German list, against #11,924 for "lo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "lego" and "lo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "lego" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,866,913 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lego" and "lo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lo vs puzzles". 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 #1,866,913 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list