loto
[ˈlot̪o]
The verdict
“loto” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,434) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,434
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planta acuática de la familia de las ninfeáceas, de hojas muy grandes, coriáceas, con pecíolo largo y delgado; flores terminales, solitarias, de gran diámetro, color blanco azulado y olorosas, y fr...
Corpus desk
Index ES-loto · loto · Spanish
loto · rank #28,434 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,434
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH LMAO
Nearest frequency peer: LMAO (-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 “loto”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- llana
llana
71,570 corpus weight
- llenaba
llenaba
71,569 corpus weight
- LMAO
LMAO
71,568 corpus weight
- loto
loto
71,567 corpus weight
- macabro
macabro
71,565 corpus weight
- magnitudes
magnitudes
71,564 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “loto” 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 | loto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlot̪o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “loto”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loto is neighbouring look-alikes ("low", "Lou", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlot̪o]. Frequency #28,434 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for loto, with forms such as "lloto", "loot", and "ltoo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "low", "Lou", "lujo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is loto, spelled L-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1Planta acuática de la familia de las ninfeáceas, de hojas muy grandes, coriáceas, con pecíolo largo y delgado; flores terminales, solitarias, de gran diámetro, color blanco azulado y olorosas, y fruto globoso parecido al de la adormidera, con semillas que se comen después de tostarlas y molerlas. Abunda en las orillas del Nilo, y las hojas, la flor y el fruto figuran en los monumentos de los antiguos egipcios.
- 2Árbol de África, de la familia de las rámneas, parecido al azufaifo, de unos dos metros de altura, y cuyo fruto, que es una drupa rojiza del tamaño de la ciruela y casi redonda, tiene la carne algo dulce, y, según antiguos mitólogos y poetas, hacía que los extranjeros que lo comían olvidasen su patria.
- 3Flor del loto.
- 4Fruto del loto.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloto
- loot
- ltoo
- olto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loto - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).