Laos
[ˈlaos]
The verdict
“Laos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,471) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,471
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-laos · Laos · Spanish
Laos · rank #19,471 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,471
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH LATAM
Nearest frequency peer: LATAM (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Laos”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kazajistán
Kazajistán
80,533 corpus weight
- kilogramos
kilogramos
80,532 corpus weight
- Laos
Laos
80,530 corpus weight
- LATAM
LATAM
80,529 corpus weight
- lavarse
lavarse
80,528 corpus weight
- levanten
levanten
80,527 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Laos” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Laos is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "los", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈlaos]. Frequency #19,471 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "Laos" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "lo". View pair
- 2 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #19,471 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "L" letter cohort. L–Z browse
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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.