luto
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,444
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
luto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Expresión de pena por la muerte de una persona, se manifiesta en la ropa y accesorios de color negro, así como en adornos que se colocan en el lugar donde vivía o donde se vela el difunto. Pronounced [ˈlut̪o]. Often confused with luz and lux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlut̪o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for luto is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlut̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,444 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 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for luto, with forms such as "lluto", "ltuo", and "luot". 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, "luz", "lux", "lo", 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 luto, spelled L-U-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresión de pena por la muerte de una persona, se manifiesta en la ropa y accesorios de color negro, así como en adornos que se colocan en el lugar donde vivía o donde se vela el difunto.
- 2Pena por la muerte de un familiar o amigo.
- 3Filete añadido a las esquelas religiosas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lluto,ltuo,luot,lutto,ulto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for luto
Misspelling Variants of "luto"
Frequency rank: #11,444 in Spanish
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