loos
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The verdict
“loos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,226) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,226
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs loo
Corpus desk
Index DE-loos · loos · German
loos · rank #29,226 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,226
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH LKR
Nearest frequency peer: LKR (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „loos“
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70,776 corpus weight
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70,775 corpus weight
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70,774 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „loos“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | loos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „loos“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loos is neighbouring look-alikes ("Los", "low", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #29,226 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs loo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for loos, with forms such as "lloos", "looss", and "loso". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "low", "Lot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is loos, spelled L-O-O-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs loo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloos
- looss
- loso
- olos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loos - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).