losa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,124
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
2
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
losa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Piedra plana y de poco grosor, usada para pavimentar, revestir una construcción, y otros usos. Pronounced [ˈlosa]. Often confused with low and Lou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | losa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlosa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for losa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlosa]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,124 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 losa, including "lossa" and "lsoa". 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, "low", "Lou", "lot", 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 losa, spelled L-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Piedra plana y de poco grosor, usada para pavimentar, revestir una construcción, y otros usos.
- 2Placa de piedra u otro material con que se cubre una sepultura.
- 3Placa de hormigón con que se reparte la carga de un edificio en una superficie amplia, para cimentarlo o contruir en altura.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lossa,lsoa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for losa
Misspelling Variants of "losa"
Frequency rank: #23,124 in Spanish
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