countries
/ˈkʌn.tɹiz/
The verdict
“countries” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #41,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,828
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de country ('países').
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | countries |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʌn.tɹiz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “countries” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around countries (IPA /ˈkʌn.tɹiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,828 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de country ('países').".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for countries, with forms such as "ccountries", "conutries", and "counntries". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is countries, spelled C-O-U-N-T-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de country ('países').
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccountries
- conutries
- counntries
- counrties
- countires
- countreis
- countriess
- countrise
- countrries
- counttries
- coutnries
- cuontries
- ocuntries
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of countries - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “countries”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-U-N-T-R-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkʌn.tɹiz/ (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.