Which to use
“love” is a noun and “low” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #147
- “love” frequency rank
- #468
- “low” frequency rank
- 615
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | love | low |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A deep caring for the existence of another. | Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. |
Where the eye mixes love and low
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: love vs low
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: love is /lʌv/ while low is /ˈləʊ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 615, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
love is recorded at frequency rank #147, classified as anoun, pronounced /lʌv/. low is at rank #468, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈləʊ/.
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 615, this pair ranks #529,116 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of love vs low
Shared letters: lo. Private to "love": ev. Private to "low": w.
"love" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "low" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- love ← llove · loev · lovve · lvoe · olve
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "love" for "low" ever safe?
In ordinary English text, does "love" or "low" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "love" and "low" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "love" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "low" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #529,116 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "love" and "low" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "low 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 #529,116 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.