California
[kaliˈfoɾnja]
The verdict
“California” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,698
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uno de los estados que conforman los Estados Unidos de América, situado en la costa oeste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | California |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kaliˈfoɾnja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “California” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around California (IPA [kaliˈfoɾnja]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,698 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Uno de los estados que conforman los Estados Unidos de América, situado en la costa oeste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for California, with forms such as "aclifornia", "cailfornia", and "calfiornia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is California, spelled C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Uno de los estados que conforman los Estados Unidos de América, situado en la costa oeste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclifornia
- cailfornia
- calfiornia
- califfornia
- califonria
- califorina
- californai
- californnia
- califorrnia
- califronia
- caliofrnia
- callifornia
- ccalifornia
- claifornia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of California - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “California”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaliˈfoɾnja] (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.