loko
The verdict
“loko” is uncommon French (frequency #71,672 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,672
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Langue mandé sud-ouest parlée dans le Nord du Sierra Leone. Son code ISO 639-3 est lok.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “loko” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
loko is uncommon French at frequency #71,672 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue mandé sud-ouest parlée dans le Nord du Sierra Leone. Son code ISO 639-3 est lok.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for loko in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is loko, spelled L-O-K-O.
Definition
- 1Langue mandé sud-ouest parlée dans le Nord du Sierra Leone. Son code ISO 639-3 est lok.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “loko”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-O-K-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.