lox
/lɒks/
"lox" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,312) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,312
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lox · lox · English
lox · rank #44,312 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,312
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lopes
Nearest frequency peer: lopes (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “lox”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- lipoprotein
lipoprotein
55,693 corpus weight
- Lod
Lod
55,692 corpus weight
- lopes
lopes
55,691 corpus weight
- lox
lox
55,689 corpus weight
- Lundy
Lundy
55,687 corpus weight
- Lycra
Lycra
55,686 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “lox” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lox |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɒks/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “lox”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lox is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lt", "LP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /lɒks/. Frequency #44,312 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lox, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lt", "LP", "Ls", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Yiddish לאַקס (laks, “salmon”). Doublet of lax. The correct English form is lox, spelled L-O-X.
Definition
- 1Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish לאַקס (laks, “salmon”). Doublet of lax.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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