Los
The verdict
“Los” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,148) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,148
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Destin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-los · Los · French
Los · rank #3,148 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,148
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lis
Nearest frequency peer: lis (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Los”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- intégration
intégration
96,857 corpus weight
- job
job
96,856 corpus weight
- jury
jury
96,855 corpus weight
- lis
lis
96,854 corpus weight
- Los
Los
96,853 corpus weight
- missions
missions
96,850 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Los” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Los |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Los” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Los is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #3,148 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Destin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Los in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Los, spelled L-O-S.
Definition
- 1Destin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Los appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es ist sein Los, zu leiden.
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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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.