Los
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#469
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Los is aGermannoun. It means: Schicksal, unbeeinflussbares Geschick Pronounced [loːs]. It ranks #469 in German word frequency. Often confused with LP and Lu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Los |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [loːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Los is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [loːs]. Corpus data places it at rank #469 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Los in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "Lu", "Lv", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Los, spelled L-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Schicksal, unbeeinflussbares Geschick
- 2zufällig gezogener Zettel im Glücksspiel
- 3etwas, mit dem man eine zufällige Entscheidung trifft
- 4Abschnitt in einem größeren Bauvorhaben
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #469 in German
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