los
The verdict
“los” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #394) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #394
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - os, pronome demonstrativo
Corpus desk
Index PT-los · los · Portuguese
los · rank #394 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #394
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH norte
Nearest frequency peer: norte (+2 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “los”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- chegar
chegar
99,611 corpus weight
- desse
desse
99,610 corpus weight
- los
los
99,607 corpus weight
- norte
norte
99,605 corpus weight
- política
política
99,604 corpus weight
- ponto
ponto
99,603 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “los” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “los”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for los is neighbouring look-alikes ("ls", "luz", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #394 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "os, pronome demonstrativo".
Zero misspellings are on record for los in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ls", "luz", "lua", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Portuguese form is los, spelled L-O-S.
Definition
- 1os, pronome demonstrativo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how los appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Los que you quiero son lhebes.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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