Which to use
“look” and “love” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,834
- “look” frequency rank
- #4,262
- “love” frequency rank
- 13096
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | look | love |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mirar. | Amar. |
Where the eye mixes look and love
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: look vs love
A purely visual mix-up. look (/lʊk/) and love (/lʌv/) 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 13096, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
look is recorded at frequency rank #8,834, classified as averb, pronounced /lʊk/. love is at rank #4,262, tagged as averb, pronounced /lʌv/.
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 13096, this pair ranks #289,162 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of look vs love
Shared letters: lo. Private to "look": k. Private to "love": ev.
"look" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "love" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "look" and "love" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Spanish text, does "look" or "love" show up more?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "look" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "love" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #289,162 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "look" and "love" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "livre vs love". 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 #289,162 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.