Which to use
“loot” and “love” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,213
- “loot” frequency rank
- #147
- “love” frequency rank
- 15360
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | loot | love |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat. | A deep caring for the existence of another. |
Where the eye mixes loot and love
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: loot vs love
A purely visual mix-up. loot (/luːt/) and love (/lʌv/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15360, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
loot is recorded at frequency rank #15,213, classified as anoun, pronounced /luːt/. love is at rank #147, tagged as anoun, pronounced /lʌv/.
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 15360, this pair ranks #464,410 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of loot vs love
Shared letters: lo. Private to "loot": t. Private to "love": ev.
"loot" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "love" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "loot" and "love" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "loot" or "love"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "loot" and "love" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "loot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "love" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #464,410 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "loot" and "love" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "loot vs lope". 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 #464,410 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.