lao
[ˈlao]
The verdict
“lao” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,079) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,079
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a la etnia mayoritaria de Laos
Corpus desk
Index ES-lao · lao · Spanish
lao · rank #22,079 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,079
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH language
Nearest frequency peer: language (-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 “lao”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
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77,924 corpus weight
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77,923 corpus weight
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77,922 corpus weight
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What this shows Las barras sitúan “lao” 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 | lao |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈlao] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lao”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lao is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "le", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈlao]. Frequency #22,079 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Que pertenece o concierne a la etnia mayoritaria de Laos".
No misspelling variants are generated for lao in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "le", "li", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is lao, spelled L-A-O.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a la etnia mayoritaria de Laos
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).