lost
/ˈlɔst/
The verdict
“lost” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,302. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,302
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cola de animal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lost · lost · Spanish
lost · rank #18,302 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,302
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lunares
Nearest frequency peer: lunares (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “lost”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Lanús
Lanús
81,703 corpus weight
- leucemia
leucemia
81,702 corpus weight
- liberan
liberan
81,701 corpus weight
- lost
lost
81,699 corpus weight
- lunares
lunares
81,698 corpus weight
- lunas
lunas
81,697 corpus weight
What this shows “lost” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | lost |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɔst/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “lost”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around lost (IPA /ˈlɔst/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,302 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cola de animal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lost, with forms such as "llost", "losst", and "lostt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is lost, spelled L-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1Cola de animal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llost
- losst
- lostt
- lots
- lsot
- olst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lost - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).