loco
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The verdict
“loco” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,324
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ort, Platz, Stelle; auch in Fachwort
Corpus desk
Index DE-loco · loco · German
loco · rank #41,324 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,324
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Locarno
Nearest frequency peer: Locarno (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „loco“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lienz
Lienz
58,680 corpus weight
- lobenswert
lobenswert
58,679 corpus weight
- Locarno
Locarno
58,678 corpus weight
- loco
loco
58,677 corpus weight
- Loks
Loks
58,676 corpus weight
- LW
LW
58,674 corpus weight
What this shows „loco“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loco |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „loco“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around loco (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,324 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ort, Platz, Stelle; auch in Fachwort".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for loco, with forms such as "lcoo", "lloco", and "locco". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "lol", "low", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is loco, spelled L-O-C-O.
Definition
- 1Ort, Platz, Stelle; auch in Fachwort
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcoo
- lloco
- locco
- looc
- olco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loco - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).