loo
\lu\
The verdict
“loo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,432) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,432
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cabinets, toilettes, waters, petit coin (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
Corpus desk
Index FR-loo · loo · French
loo · rank #47,432 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,432
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logs
Nearest frequency peer: logs (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « loo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- lithographi…
lithographies
52,572 corpus weight
- loches
loches
52,571 corpus weight
- logs
logs
52,570 corpus weight
- loo
loo
52,569 corpus weight
- LPO
LPO
52,568 corpus weight
- Lucques
Lucques
52,567 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « loo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « loo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lu\. Frequency #47,432 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for loo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is loo, spelled L-O-O.
Definition
- 1Cabinets, toilettes, waters, petit coin (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
- 2Cabinets, toilettes, waters, petit coin (appareil sanitaire recueillant et évacuant les besoins naturels).
- 3Jeu de cartes.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).