Kansas
[ˈkãnsas]
The verdict
“Kansas” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #15,654 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #15,654
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Estado que hace parte de los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en el centro del país.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kansas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkãnsas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kansas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Kansas is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkãnsas]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,654 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Estado que hace parte de los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en el centro del país.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kansas, with forms such as "aknsas", "kanass", and "kannsas". 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Kansas, spelled K-A-N-S-A-S.
Definition
- 1Estado que hace parte de los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en el centro del país.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aknsas,kanass,kannsas,kansass,kanssa,kanssas,kasnas,kkansas,knasas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kansas - 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 “Kansas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-A-N-S-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkãnsas] (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
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.