ló vs los, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“ló” is a noun and “los” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,407
“ló” frequency rank: #394
“los” frequency rank: 37801
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ló	los
Definition	lado de uma embarcação que fica exposto ao vento	os, pronome demonstrativo

Letter map: ló vs los

Shared letters muted; letters that set ló and los apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch

ló

3 ch

los

Part-of-speech tell for ló / los

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ló is anoun and losapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37801, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ló is recorded at frequency rank #37,407, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈlɔ/. los is at rank #394, tagged as apron.

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 37801, this pair ranks #28,769 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ló vs los

Shared letters: l. Private to "ló": ó. Private to "los": os.

"ló" · 2 letters · shape CV · "los" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ló" and "los" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ló" is a noun and "los" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "ló" vs "los" - which ranks higher?

"los" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #394 in our Portuguese list, against #37,407 for "ló". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "ló" and "los".

Full dictionary entry for "ló" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "los" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #28,769 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ló" and "los" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ló vs loch". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #28,769 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.