loco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#972
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
loco is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no está en su sano juicio, que se comporta de forma irracional. Pronounced [ˈloko]. It ranks #972 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with los and low.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈloko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for loco is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈloko]. Corpus data places it at rank #972 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for loco, with forms such as "lcoo", "lloco", and "locco". 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 loco, spelled L-O-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no está en su sano juicio, que se comporta de forma irracional.
- 2Que se comporta de forma imprudente e irresponsable.
- 3Se dice de cualquier aparato que no funciona correctamente.
- 4Se dice de algo inesperada o asombrosamente grande.
- 5Se dice de un sentimiento muy intenso o de la persona que lo padece.
- 6Se dice de la vida, ritmo de vida o actividades agitadas y muy intensas.
- 7Dicho de la vegetación, que crece de forma sana y muy abundante.
- 8Se dice de cosas mecánicas que por motivos diversos giran o se mueven sin control o impredeciblemente.
- 9Se emplea como forma de dirigirse a alguien, por enojo, fastidio o camaradería.
- 10Dicho de una persona, que padece de algún trastorno mental (esquizofrenia, oligofrenia, trastorno bipolar, mal de Alzheimer e incluso trastornos del espectro autista).
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lcoo,lloco,locco,looc,olco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for loco
Misspelling Variants of "loco"
Frequency rank: #972 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: