loro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,658
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
2
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
loro is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Psittacidae) Ave trepadora de 30 a 40 cm de longitud, suele tener el plumaje colorido, siendo frecuente en muchas especies las plumas de color verde o rojo. Se alimenta principalmente de frutos y ... Pronounced [ˈloɾo]. Often confused with los and low.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈloɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for loro is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈloɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,658 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 2 documented wrong-spelling variants for loro, including "lorro" and "lroo". 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 loro, spelled L-O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Psittacidae) Ave trepadora de 30 a 40 cm de longitud, suele tener el plumaje colorido, siendo frecuente en muchas especies las plumas de color verde o rojo. Se alimenta principalmente de frutos y semillas, que puede triturar con su pico curvo y fuerte; sus patas tienen cuatro dedos opuestos en pares y su cola es larga. Por la conformación de su lengua, muchas especies son capaces de imitar el lenguaje humano. Se crían como mascotas, pero también son perseguidos por los daños que causan en los cultivos.
- 2Moco que va saliendo de la nariz.
- 3Aparato de radio, y por extensión cualquier equipo de música.
- 4Persona muy locuaz.
- 5Persona que acecha o espía para dar aviso a sus compinches.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lorro,lroo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for loro
Misspelling Variants of "loro"
Frequency rank: #15,658 in Spanish
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