Culiacán
[kuljaˈkãn]
The verdict
“Culiacán” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,013
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad capital del estado de Sinaloa, México.
Corpus desk
Index ES-culiacan · Culiacán · Spanish
Culiacán · rank #23,013 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,013
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cuestionan
Nearest frequency peer: cuestionan (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Culiacán”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cruzamos
cruzamos
76,990 corpus weight
- cuestionan
cuestionan
76,989 corpus weight
- Culiacán
Culiacán
76,988 corpus weight
- cósmico
cósmico
76,987 corpus weight
- dañino
dañino
76,986 corpus weight
- defectuoso
defectuoso
76,985 corpus weight
What this shows “Culiacán” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Culiacán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kuljaˈkãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Culiacán”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Culiacán (IPA [kuljaˈkãn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,013 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ciudad capital del estado de Sinaloa, México.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Culiacán, with forms such as "cculiacán", "cluiacán", and "cuilacán". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Culiacán, spelled C-U-L-I-A-C-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Ciudad capital del estado de Sinaloa, México.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cculiacán
- cluiacán
- cuilacán
- culaicán
- culiaccán
- culiacná
- culiacánn
- culiaácn
- culicaán
- culliacán
- ucliacán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Culiacán - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).