loto
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,434
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
loto is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈlot̪o]. Often confused with low and Lou.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for loto is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlot̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,434 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for loto, with forms such as "lloto", "loot", and "ltoo". 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", "lujo", 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 loto, spelled L-O-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lloto,loot,ltoo,olto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for loto
Misspelling Variants of "loto"
Frequency rank: #28,434 in Spanish
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