Laos
[ˈlaos]
The verdict
“Laos” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #19,471 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #19,471
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - País del sudeste de Asia, sin litoral. Limita con al noroeste con Birmania, al norte con China, al este con Vietnam, al sur con Camboya y al oeste con Tailandia.
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 | Laos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaos] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Laos” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Laos is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlaos]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,471 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País del sudeste de Asia, sin litoral. Limita con al noroeste con Birmania, al norte con China, al este con Vietnam, al sur con Camboya y al oeste con Tailandia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for Laos, including "laoss" and "llaos". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "los", "las", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Laos, spelled L-A-O-S.
Definition
- 1País del sudeste de Asia, sin litoral. Limita con al noroeste con Birmania, al norte con China, al este con Vietnam, al sur con Camboya y al oeste con Tailandia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: laoss,llaos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Laos - 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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Using “Laos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-A-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈlaos] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “lo” - see the side-by-side comparison. Laos vs lo
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.