Mexico City
/ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/
"mexico-city" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mexico City” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Mexico.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mexico-city · Mexico City · English
Mexico City · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mexico City |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mexico City” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mexico City is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Mexico.".
Mexico City doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Calque of Mexican Spanish Ciudad de México. The correct English form is Mexico City, spelled M-E-X-I-C-O- -C-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Mexico.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mexico City appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I went to Mexico City on April 15, 1966, to unveil a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who had been a contemporary of Mexican leader Benito Juarez and was revered in Mexico, as in so many other nations.
The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s…
Etymology
Calque of Mexican Spanish Ciudad de México.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.