Andorra la Vieja
The verdict
“Andorra la Vieja” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Capital de Andorra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Andorra la Vieja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ãn̪ˈd̪ora la ˈβ̞jexa] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Andorra la Vieja” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Andorra la Vieja is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ãn̪ˈd̪ora la ˈβ̞jexa]. 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: "Capital de Andorra.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Andorra la Vieja in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Andorra la Vieja, spelled A-N-D-O-R-R-A- -L-A- -V-I-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capital de Andorra.
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Using “Andorra la Vieja”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-N-D-O-R-R-A- -L-A- -V-I-E-J-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ãn̪ˈd̪ora la ˈβ̞jexa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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