lo vs luz, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#11,924
“lo” frequency rank: #35,899
“luz” frequency rank: 47823
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	lo	luz
Definition	siehe!, seht!, schaut an!	etwas, das Dinge sichtbar macht oder Beleuchtung produziert

Letter map: lo vs luz

Shared letters muted; letters that set lo and luz apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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luz

Part-of-speech tell for lo / luz

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lo is anintj and luzanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47823, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lo is recorded at frequency rank #11,924, classified as anintj, pronounced […]. luz is at rank #35,899, tagged as anoun, pronounced [luʃ].

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 47823, this pair ranks #1,270,681 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lo vs luz

Shared letters: l. Private to "lo": o. Private to "luz": uz.

"lo" · 2 letters · shape CV · "luz" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lo" and "luz" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary German text, does "lo" or "luz" show up more?

"lo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,924 in our German list, against #35,899 for "luz". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "lo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "luz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,270,681 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"lo" and "luz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Lai vs luz". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,270,681 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.