Coyoacán
[koʝoaˈkãn]
The verdict
“Coyoacán” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,551
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Una de las 16 alcaldías de la Ciudad de México. Se localiza en el sur de la entidad. Limita al norte con la alcaldía de Benito Juárez; al oriente con Iztapalapa; al poniente, con Álvaro Obregón; y ...
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 | Coyoacán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [koʝoaˈkãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Coyoacán” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Coyoacán (IPA [koʝoaˈkãn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,551 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Una de las 16 alcaldías de la Ciudad de México. Se localiza en el sur de la entidad. Limita al norte con la alcaldía de Benito Juárez; al oriente con Iztapalapa; al poniente, con Álvaro Obregón; y ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Coyoacán, with forms such as "ccoyoacán", "cooyacán", and "coyaocán". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "colocan", "conozcan", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is Coyoacán, spelled C-O-Y-O-A-C-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Una de las 16 alcaldías de la Ciudad de México. Se localiza en el sur de la entidad. Limita al norte con la alcaldía de Benito Juárez; al oriente con Iztapalapa; al poniente, con Álvaro Obregón; y al sureste con Xochimilco y Tlalpan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoyoacán
- cooyacán
- coyaocán
- coyoaccán
- coyoacná
- coyoacánn
- coyoaácn
- coyocaán
- coyyoacán
- cyooacán
- ocyoacán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Coyoacán - 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 “Coyoacán”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-Y-O-A-C-Á-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [koʝoaˈkãn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “colocan” - see the side-by-side comparison. Coyoacán vs colocan
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.