United Mexican States
/juːˌnaɪtɨd ˈmɛk.sɪ.kən ˈsteɪts/
"united-mexican-states" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“United Mexican States” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Official name of Mexico: a country in North America.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | United Mexican States |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /juːˌnaɪtɨd ˈmɛk.sɪ.kən ˈsteɪts/ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “United Mexican States” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for United Mexican States is 21 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /juːˌnaɪtɨd ˈmɛk.sɪ.kən ˈsteɪts/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Official name of Mexico: a country in North America.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for United Mexican States, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Calque of Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos The correct English form is United Mexican States, spelled U-N-I-T-E-D- -M-E-X-I-C-A-N- -S-T-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Official name of Mexico: a country in North America.
Etymology
Calque of Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos
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.
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Using “United Mexican States”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-N-I-T-E-D- -M-E-X-I-C-A-N- -S-T-A-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /juːˌnaɪtɨd ˈmɛk.sɪ.kən ˈsteɪts/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.