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Which to use

“looks” and “lopes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#25,386
“looks” frequency rank
#26,082
“lopes” frequency rank
51468
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature looks lopes
Definition Pluriel de look. Pluriel de lope.

Where the eye mixes looks and lopes

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
looks
5 ch
lopes

Look-alike desk: looks vs lopes

A purely visual mix-up. looks (\luk\) and lopes (\lɔp\) 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 51468, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

looks is recorded at frequency rank #25,386, classified as anoun, pronounced \luk\. lopes is at rank #26,082, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lɔp\.

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 51468, this pair ranks #154,763 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of looks vs lopes

Shared letters: los. Private to "looks": k. Private to "lopes": ep.

"looks" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "lopes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • looksllooks · lokos · loks · lookks · lookss · loosk · oloks
  • lopesllopes · loeps · lopess · loppes · lopse · lpoes · olpes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "looks" and "lopes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\luk\ versus \lɔp\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "looks" vs "lopes" - which ranks higher?
"looks" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,386 in our French list, against #26,082 for "lopes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "looks" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lopes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #154,763 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "looks" and "lopes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "limes vs lopes". 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 #154,763 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list