loved vs lowe, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“loved” is a verb and “lowe” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,088
“loved” frequency rank: #13,751
“lowe” frequency rank: 14839
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	loved	lowe
Definition	simple past and past participle of love	Alternative form of low ("flame").

Letter map: loved vs lowe

Shared letters muted; letters that set loved and lowe apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

loved

4 ch

lowe

Grammar separator: loved vs lowe

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: loved is averb and loweanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14839, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

loved is recorded at frequency rank #1,088, classified as averb, pronounced /lʌvd/. lowe is at rank #13,751, tagged as anoun.

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 14839, this pair ranks #467,641 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of loved vs lowe

Shared letters: elo. Private to "loved": dv. Private to "lowe": w.

"loved" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "lowe" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

loved ← lloved · loevd · lovde · lovedd · lovved · lvoed · olved
lowe ← llowe · lowwe · lwoe · olwe

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "loved" for "lowe" ever safe?

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

Which is more common, "loved" or "lowe"?

"loved" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,088 in our English list, against #13,751 for "lowe". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "loved" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "lowe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #467,641 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"loved" and "lowe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lope vs lowe". 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 #467,641 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.