Costa de Marfil

/[ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil]/ phrase

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.

Key facts for Costa de Marfil
PropertyValue
HeadwordCosta de Marfil
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Costa de Marfil” sits in Spanish frequency

Costa de Marfil 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 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

  1. 1
    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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Costa de Marfil"?
"Costa de Marfil" is spelled C-O-S-T-A- -D-E- -M-A-R-F-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil].
What does "Costa de Marfil" mean?
As a phrase, "Costa de Marfil" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "Costa de Marfil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Costa de Marfil" is [ˈkost̪a ð̞e maɾˈfil]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Costa de Marfil" come from?
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Using “Costa de Marfil”

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

  • 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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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.