LohrvsloosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Lohr is a name, loos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Lohr” is a name and “loos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,884
“Lohr” frequency rank
#29,226
“loos” frequency rank
68110
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Lohr loos
Definition eine Stadt in Bayern, Deutschland Plural des Substantivs loo

Letter map: Lohr vs loos

Shared letters muted; letters that set Lohr and loos apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Lohr (CVCC) and loos (CVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
Lohr
4 ch
loos

Part-of-speech tell for Lohr / loos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Lohr is aname and loosanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68110, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Lohr is recorded at frequency rank #38,884, classified as aname, pronounced [loːɐ̯]. loos is at rank #29,226, tagged as anoun, 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 68110, this pair ranks #518,394 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Lohr vs loos

Shared letters: lo. Private to "Lohr": hr. Private to "loos": s.

"Lohr" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "loos" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Lohr ← lhor · llohr · lohhr · lohrr · lorh · olhr
  • loos ← lloos · looss · loso · olos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Lohr" and "loos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Lohr" is a name and "loos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Lohr" or "loos" show up more?
"loos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,226 in our German list, against #38,884 for "Lohr". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Lohr" and "loos". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Lohr" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "loos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #518,394 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Lohr" and "loos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Lohr 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 #518,394 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