lo
[lo]
The verdict
“lo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artículo determinado de género neutro que se usa para sustantivar adjetivos o frases. Forma del neutro de el.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lo · lo · Spanish
lo · rank #19 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #19
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH para
Nearest frequency peer: para (-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 “lo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- las
las
99,986 corpus weight
- con
con
99,985 corpus weight
- para
para
99,983 corpus weight
- lo
lo
99,982 corpus weight
- su
su
99,981 corpus weight
- al
al
99,980 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lo” 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 | lo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | [lo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "lx", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced [lo]. Frequency #19 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Artículo determinado de género neutro que se usa para sustantivar adjetivos o frases. Forma del neutro de el.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "lx", "los", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is lo, spelled L-O.
Definition
- 1Artículo determinado de género neutro que se usa para sustantivar adjetivos o frases. Forma del neutro de el.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lo malo es que si recorremos ahora un museo Picasso hipotéticamente completo, es decir, que recoja toda la obra pictórica y escultórica del autor, la emoción de conjunto que sentimos no es la que se siente ante lo meramente verosímil o lo meramente posible, sino ante lo logrado, lo existente y lo real, es decir, lo verdadero.
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.