loto
\lo.to\
The verdict
“loto” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,612) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,612
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de jeu qu’on joue avec des numéros, dont les uns sont sur des sortes de boules, de jetons qu’on tire au sort, les autres sur des tableaux distribués aux joueurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loto · loto · French
loto · rank #12,612 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,612
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH link
Nearest frequency peer: link (-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 « loto »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Kyle
Kyle
87,393 corpus weight
- labo
labo
87,392 corpus weight
- link
link
87,390 corpus weight
- loto
loto
87,389 corpus weight
- lus
lus
87,388 corpus weight
- maintenue
maintenue
87,386 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « loto » 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 | loto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lo.to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « loto »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loto is neighbouring look-alikes ("LT", "lou", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lo.to\. Frequency #12,612 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for loto, with forms such as "lloto", "loot", and "ltoo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LT", "lou", "low", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is loto, spelled L-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1Sorte de jeu qu’on joue avec des numéros, dont les uns sont sur des sortes de boules, de jetons qu’on tire au sort, les autres sur des tableaux distribués aux joueurs.
- 2Séance où l’on joue à ce jeu.
- 3Ensemble des objets dont on se sert pour jouer à ce jeu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Parisien prenait-il son lorgnon pour examiner les singuliers accessoires de la salle, […], aussitôt les joueurs de loto levaient le nez et le considéraient avec autant de curiosité qu’ils en eussent manifesté pour une girafe.
Sur trois rangées de tables, les joueurs étaient alignés en bon ordre, certains avec la femme et la marmaille qui chahutait dans les travées. Des cartons de loto avec de gros numéros noirs et des cases vides en face des joueurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloto
- loot
- ltoo
- olto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).