cities

/[ˈsɪ.tiz]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,495

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

cities is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de city. Pronounced [ˈsɪ.tiz]. Often confused with civiles and citizen.

Key facts for cities
PropertyValue
Headwordcities
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsɪ.tiz]
Letters6
Frequency rank#37,495
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cities in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cities is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsɪ.tiz]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,495 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de city.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cities, with forms such as "ccities", "ciites", and "citeis". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "civiles", "citizen", "cite", and more, 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 cities, spelled C-I-T-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de city.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccities,ciites,citeis,citiess,citise,citties,ctiies,icties,sities

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cities

Misspelling Variants of "cities"

ccities7ciites6citeis6citiess7citise6citties7ctiies6icties6
Misspelling Variants of "cities"

Frequency rank: #37,495 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cities"?
"cities" is spelled C-I-T-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsɪ.tiz].
What does "cities" mean?
As a noun, "cities" means: Forma del plural de city.
What words are commonly confused with "cities"?
"cities" is commonly confused with "civiles", "citizen", "cite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cities"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cities" is [ˈsɪ.tiz]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cities" come from?
"cities" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index:

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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.