# Colombia

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/ · frequency rank #7,663

## Definitions
1. A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”); named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Equivalent to Colombo + -ia; piecewise doublet of Columbia.

## Easily confused with
- **Colombo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colombia-vs-colombo)
- **Columbia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colombia-vs-columbia)
- **Colombian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colombia-vs-colombian)
- **Columbian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colombia-vs-columbian)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ccolombia`, `cloombia`, `collombia`, `colmobia`, `colobmia`, `colombai`, `colombbia`, `colomiba`, `colommbia`, `coolmbia`, `oclombia`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/colombia