link vs luck, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“link” and “luck” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,265
“link” frequency rank: #38,798
“luck” frequency rank: 42063
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	link	luck
Definition	Conexión.	Suerte

Where the eye mixes link and luck

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch

link

4 ch

luck

Look-alike desk: link vs luck

A purely visual mix-up. link (/lɪŋk/) and luck (/lʌk/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42063, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

link is recorded at frequency rank #3,265, classified as anoun, pronounced /lɪŋk/. luck is at rank #38,798, tagged as anoun, pronounced /lʌk/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 42063, this pair ranks #150,296 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of link vs luck

Shared letters: kl. Private to "link": in. Private to "luck": cu.

"link" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "luck" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

link ← ilnk · likn · linkk · linnk · llink · lnik
luck ← lcuk · lluck · lucck · luckk · lukc · ulck

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "link" for "luck" ever safe?

No. They are said differently (/lɪŋk/ versus /lʌk/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.

Frequency check: "link" vs "luck" - which ranks higher?

"link" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,265 in our Spanish list, against #38,798 for "luck". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "link" and "luck" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

Full dictionary entry for "link" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "luck" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #150,296 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"link" and "luck" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lac vs luck". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #150,296 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.