Baja California

/[ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Baja California is aSpanishphrase. It means: Uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el extremo noroeste del país. Comparte la Península de Baja California con el estado de Baja California Sur. Pronounced [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja].

Key facts for Baja California
PropertyValue
HeadwordBaja California
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Baja California is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Baja California is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja]. 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: "Uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el extremo noroeste del país. Comparte la Península de Baja California con el estado de Baja California Sur.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Baja California in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Baja California, spelled B-A-J-A- -C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el extremo noroeste del país. Comparte la Península de Baja California con el estado de Baja California Sur.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Baja California"?
"Baja California" is spelled B-A-J-A- -C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja].
What does "Baja California" mean?
As a phrase, "Baja California" means: Uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el extremo noroeste del país. Comparte la Península de Baja California con el estado de Baja California Sur.
How do you pronounce "Baja California"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Baja California" is [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Baja California" come from?
"Baja California" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.