Corea del Sur

/[koˈɾea ð̞el ˈsuɾ]/ name

The verdict

“Corea del Sur” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: País de Asia oriental. Limita con Corea del Norte, el mar del Japón, el estrecho de Corea, que la separa de Japón, y el mar Amarillo.

Key facts for Corea del Sur
PropertyValue
HeadwordCorea del Sur
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[koˈɾea ð̞el ˈsuɾ]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Corea del Sur” sits in Spanish frequency

Corea del Sur falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Corea del Sur is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈɾea ð̞el ˈsuɾ]. 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: "País de Asia oriental. Limita con Corea del Norte, el mar del Japón, el estrecho de Corea, que la separa de Japón, y el mar Amarillo.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Corea del Sur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 Corea del Sur, spelled C-O-R-E-A- -D-E-L- -S-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    País de Asia oriental. Limita con Corea del Norte, el mar del Japón, el estrecho de Corea, que la separa de Japón, y el mar Amarillo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Corea del Sur"?
"Corea del Sur" is spelled C-O-R-E-A- -D-E-L- -S-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is [koˈɾea ð̞el ˈsuɾ].
What does "Corea del Sur" mean?
As a proper noun, "Corea del Sur" means: País de Asia oriental. Limita con Corea del Norte, el mar del Japón, el estrecho de Corea, que la separa de Japón, y el mar Amarillo.
How do you pronounce "Corea del Sur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Corea del Sur" is [koˈɾea ð̞el ˈsuɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Corea del Sur" come from?
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Using “Corea del Sur”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-R-E-A- -D-E-L- -S-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [koˈɾea ð̞el ˈsuɾ] (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.