Ciudad de México

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Ciudad de México is 16 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sjuˈð̞að̞ d̪e ˈmexiko]. 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 y capital del país. Colinda con el Estado de México en la mayor parte de sus límites territoriales y al sur con colinda con el estado de Morelos.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ciudad de México 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 Ciudad de México, spelled C-I-U-D-A-D- -D-E- -M-É-X-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.