Lagos
[ˈlaɣ̞os]
The verdict
“Lagos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,194
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importante ciudad de Nigeria, que hasta 1991 fue su capital.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lagos · Lagos · Spanish
Lagos · rank #6,194 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,194
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH Juana
Nearest frequency peer: Juana (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Lagos”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- instrucción
instrucción
93,811 corpus weight
- Juana
Juana
93,808 corpus weight
- Lagos
Lagos
93,807 corpus weight
- lema
lema
93,806 corpus weight
- liberar
liberar
93,805 corpus weight
- literal
literal
93,804 corpus weight
What this shows “Lagos” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Lagos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaɣ̞os] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Lagos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Lagos (IPA [ˈlaɣ̞os]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,194 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lagos, with forms such as "algos", "laggos", and "lagoss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "los", "las", "lao", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Lagos, spelled L-A-G-O-S.
Definition
- 1Importante ciudad de Nigeria, que hasta 1991 fue su capital.
- 2Apellido.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- algos
- laggos
- lagoss
- lagso
- laogs
- lgaos
- llagos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lagos - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).