México

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for México is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmexiko]. Corpus data places it at rank #232 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País ubicado en Norteamérica. Colinda por el norte con los Estados Unidos de América y por el sur con Belice y Guatemala.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for México, with forms such as "mméxico", "mxéico", and "méixco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "músico", "mítico", "medio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is México, spelled M-É-X-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.