Camboya

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Camboya is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãmˈboʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,306 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País del sudeste de Asia. Limita al oeste con Tailandia, al norte con Laos, al este con Vietnam y al sur con el golfo de Tailandia.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Camboya, with forms such as "acmboya", "cabmoya", and "cambboya". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cambia", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Camboya, spelled C-A-M-B-O-Y-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.