lado
[ˈlað̞o]
The verdict
“lado” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #239) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #239
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Borde, orilla o extremo de algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lado · lado · Spanish
lado · rank #239 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #239
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH familia
Nearest frequency peer: familia (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “lado”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- España
España
99,765 corpus weight
- estamos
estamos
99,764 corpus weight
- familia
familia
99,763 corpus weight
- lado
lado
99,762 corpus weight
- aún
aún
99,761 corpus weight
- buen
buen
99,760 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lado” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | lado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlað̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lado”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lado is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "LD", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlað̞o]. Frequency #239 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for lado, with forms such as "laddo", "laod", and "ldao". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "LD", "las", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is lado, spelled L-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Borde, orilla o extremo de algo.
- 2Cada una de las caras de una hoja, tela, moneda u otro cuerpo con dos superficies opuestas.
- 3Lugar o ubicación.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- laddo
- laod
- ldao
- llado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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