loc
The verdict
“loc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,694) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,694
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cerradura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-loc · loc · Spanish
loc · rank #33,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH llorón
Nearest frequency peer: llorón (-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 “loc”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- libido
libido
66,310 corpus weight
- ligamentos
ligamentos
66,309 corpus weight
- llorón
llorón
66,308 corpus weight
- loc
loc
66,307 corpus weight
- luchen
luchen
66,305 corpus weight
- luminarias
luminarias
66,304 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “loc” 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 | loc |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “loc”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loc is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "lx", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #33,694 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Cerradura.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for loc in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is loc, spelled L-O-C.
Definition
- 1Cerradura.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes a cel ore esteit a un grant loc fermee
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).