los
/lɑs/noun
los is spelled L-O-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, los means “Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of los is loses.
How many letters and syllables are in los?
| Letters | 3: L-O-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 60 times per million words; the 1,724th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is los?
Los appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce los?
- UK /lɒs/
- US /lɑs/
Los has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-los.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with los
Sounds like: loss (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with los?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as los from its last stressed vowel (/ɑs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sol.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of los
- loses plural
- losse
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does los mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”).
- 2
obsoleteA medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.
The los had been brought from a northern part of the United States.
noun
- 1
Initialism of level of service.
- 2
Initialism of line of sight.
- 3
Initialism of loss of signal.
- 4
Initialism of Law of the Sea.
- 5
Initialism of line of supply.
- 6
Initialism of large offspring syndrome.
- 7
Initialism of lipooligosaccharide.
noun
- 1
plural of LO
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).