# Cortez

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #23,501

## Definitions
1. A surname from Spanish.
2. A city, the county seat of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.

## Etymology
From Spanish Cortez, variant of Cortés.

## Easily confused with
- **cote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cortez-vs-cote)
- **cotter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cortez-vs-cotter)
- **courted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cortez-vs-courted)
- **core** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/core-vs-cortez)
- **Corey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corey-vs-cortez)
- **cores** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cores-vs-cortez)
- **conte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/conte-vs-cortez)
- **carte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carte-vs-cortez)
- **comte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comte-vs-cortez)
- **corner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corner-vs-cortez)
- **Carter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carter-vs-cortez)
- **coated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coated-vs-cortez)
- **cortex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cortex-vs-cortez)
- **cartel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cartel-vs-cortez)
- **Coates** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coates-vs-cortez)
- **corset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corset-vs-cortez)
- **cornea** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornea-vs-cortez)
- **Correa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/correa-vs-cortez)
- **Cortes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cortes-vs-cortez)
- **cornet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-cortez)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ccortez`, `coretz`, `corrtez`, `cortezz`, `corttez`, `cortze`, `cotrez`, `crotez`, `ocrtez`

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