Illinois
[iliˈnojs]
The verdict
“Illinois” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,137
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 22,782
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Estado de los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en la región del Medio Oeste del país.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Illinois |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [iliˈnojs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Illinois” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Illinois (IPA [iliˈnojs]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,137 among 22,782 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Estado de los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en la región del Medio Oeste del país.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Illinois, with forms such as "ililnois", "ilinois", and "illinios". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Illinois, spelled I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Estado de los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en la región del Medio Oeste del país.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ililnois,ilinois,illinios,illinnois,illinoiss,illinosi,illionis,illniois,lilinois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Illinois - 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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Using “Illinois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [iliˈnojs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.