load vs Loh, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,587
“load” frequency rank: #47,164
“Loh” frequency rank: 49751
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	load	Loh
Definition	A burden; a weight to be carried.	A surname.

Letter map: load vs Loh

Shared letters muted; letters that set load and Loh apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

load

3 ch

Loh

Role in the sentence - load and Loh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: load is anoun and Lohaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49751, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

load is recorded at frequency rank #2,587, classified as anoun, pronounced /loʊd/. Loh is at rank #47,164, tagged as aname.

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 49751, this pair ranks #180,670 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of load vs Loh

Shared letters: lo. Private to "load": ad. Private to "Loh": h.

"load" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "Loh" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

load ← laod · lload · loadd · loda · olad

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "load" and "Loh" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "load" is a noun and "Loh" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "load" vs "Loh" - which ranks higher?

"load" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,587 in our English list, against #47,164 for "Loh". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "load" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Loh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #180,670 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"load" and "Loh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Loh vs LSC". 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 #180,670 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.