lobo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,916
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lobo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Canis lupus) Variedad salvaje del mismo cánido conocido en su forma doméstica como perro. Alcanza 160 cm de largo y 70 de alzada a la cruz, con una cabeza de buen tamaño con respecto al cuerpo y u... Pronounced [ˈloβ̞o]. It ranks #4,916 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with los and low.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lobo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈloβ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lobo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈloβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,916 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for lobo, with forms such as "lboo", "llobo", and "lobbo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "los", "low", "Lou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is lobo, spelled L-O-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Canis lupus) Variedad salvaje del mismo cánido conocido en su forma doméstica como perro. Alcanza 160 cm de largo y 70 de alzada a la cruz, con una cabeza de buen tamaño con respecto al cuerpo y un grueso pelaje grisáceo, pardo o blanco según las subespecies. Es gregario, formando manadas bien organizadas y con una estricta jerarquía llamadas jauría, que cazan cooperativamente. Se conocen no menos de una treintena de subespecies, distribuidas por todo el hemisferio norte y Oceanía. Simboliza tradicionalmente la fiereza y la rapacidad.
- 2Por extensión, persona feroz o rapaz.
- 3Persona de ascendencia mixta, hija de padre negro y madre india.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lboo,llobo,lobbo,loob,lovo,olbo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "lobo"
Frequency rank: #4,916 in Spanish
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