Arizona
[aɾiˈsona]
The verdict
“Arizona” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #11,350 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #11,350
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Estado de los Estados Unidos de América, situado al sudoeste del país. Limita con México, con el río Colorado, y con los estados de Utah, Nuevo México, California y Nevada.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arizona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [aɾiˈsona] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Arizona” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Arizona is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾiˈsona]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,350 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Estado de los Estados Unidos de América, situado al sudoeste del país. Limita con México, con el río Colorado, y con los estados de Utah, Nuevo México, California y Nevada.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arizona, with forms such as "airzona", "ariozna", and "ariznoa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Arjona", "Ariza", "Ariana", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Arizona, spelled A-R-I-Z-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Estado de los Estados Unidos de América, situado al sudoeste del país. Limita con México, con el río Colorado, y con los estados de Utah, Nuevo México, California y Nevada.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: airzona,ariozna,ariznoa,arizoan,arizonna,arizzona,arrizona,arziona,raizona
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arizona - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Arizona”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-R-I-Z-O-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aɾiˈsona] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Arjona” - see the side-by-side comparison. Arizona vs Arjona
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.