lovsLoopWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: lo is a intj, Loop is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#11,924
“lo” frequency rank
#21,681
“Loop” frequency rank
33605
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lo Loop
Definition siehe!, seht!, schaut an! Schal aus Wolle oder Stoff in Form eines Schlauches, den man mehrfach um den Hals schlingen kann

Letter map: lo vs Loop

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

2 ch
lo
4 ch
Loop

Part-of-speech tell for lo / Loop

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lo is anintj and Loopanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “lo” sits inside “Loop”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33605, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lo is recorded at frequency rank #11,924, classified as anintj, pronounced […]. Loop is at rank #21,681, tagged as anoun, pronounced [luːp].

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 33605, this pair ranks #1,682,150 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lo vs Loop

Shared letters: lo. Private to "lo": -. Private to "Loop": p.

"lo" · 2 letters · shape CV  ·  "Loop" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Looplloop · loopp · lop · lopo · olop

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "lo" for "Loop" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lo" is an intj and "Loop" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "lo" vs "Loop" - which ranks higher?
"lo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,924 in our German list, against #21,681 for "Loop". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "lo" and "Loop". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Loop" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,682,150 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lo" and "Loop" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Loop vs Lori". 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 #1,682,150 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