Colima
[koˈlima]
The verdict
“Colima” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,550. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,550
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Es uno de los 32 estados de México, se ubica en la costa oeste del territorio nacional y limita al norte con el estado de Jalisco, al sur con el estado de Michoacán y al oeste con el océano Pacífic...
Corpus desk
Index ES-colima · Colima · Spanish
Colima · rank #14,550 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,550
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cocinero
Nearest frequency peer: cocinero (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Colima”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- clérigo
clérigo
85,453 corpus weight
- cocinero
cocinero
85,452 corpus weight
- Colima
Colima
85,451 corpus weight
- colorido
colorido
85,450 corpus weight
- comentaba
comentaba
85,449 corpus weight
- compresión
compresión
85,448 corpus weight
What this shows “Colima” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Colima |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [koˈlima] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Colima”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Colima (IPA [koˈlima]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,550 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Es uno de los 32 estados de México, se ubica en la costa oeste del territorio nacional y limita al norte con el estado de Jalisco, al sur con el estado de Michoacán y al oeste con el océano Pacífic...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Colima, with forms such as "ccolima", "cloima", and "coilma". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coma", "copia", "comía", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Colima, spelled C-O-L-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Es uno de los 32 estados de México, se ubica en la costa oeste del territorio nacional y limita al norte con el estado de Jalisco, al sur con el estado de Michoacán y al oeste con el océano Pacífico. Su capital es la ciudad de Colima y su gentilicio es colimense.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolima
- cloima
- coilma
- coliam
- colimma
- collima
- colmia
- oclima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Colima - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).