Costa de Marfil
The verdict
“Costa de Marfil” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: País de África occidental. Limita al sur con el golfo de Guinea, al oeste con Liberia y Guinea, al norte con Malí y Burkina Faso y al este con Ghana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Costa de Marfil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Costa de Marfil” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Costa de Marfil is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil]. 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 África occidental. Limita al sur con el golfo de Guinea, al oeste con Liberia y Guinea, al norte con Malí y Burkina Faso y al este con Ghana.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Costa de Marfil 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 Costa de Marfil, spelled C-O-S-T-A- -D-E- -M-A-R-F-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1País de África occidental. Limita al sur con el golfo de Guinea, al oeste con Liberia y Guinea, al norte con Malí y Burkina Faso y al este con Ghana.
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Using “Costa de Marfil”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-S-T-A- -D-E- -M-A-R-F-I-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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