loves
/lʌvz/
The verdict
“loves” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,747 among 17,327 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,747
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,327
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) love.
Corpus desk
Index ES-loves · loves · Spanish
loves · rank #51,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,747
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,327
- PHOTO-FINISH Louie
Nearest frequency peer: Louie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “loves”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- llamáis
llamáis
48,258 corpus weight
- llegábamos
llegábamos
48,257 corpus weight
- Louie
Louie
48,255 corpus weight
- loves
loves
48,254 corpus weight
- lunático
lunático
48,253 corpus weight
- maceo
maceo
48,251 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “loves” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loves |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /lʌvz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “loves” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
loves is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,747 among 17,327 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /lʌvz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) love.".
loves doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is loves, spelled L-O-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) love.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.