Nuevo León
The verdict
“Nuevo León” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Uno de los 32 estados de México se ubica al noreste del país, colinda con el estado de Tamaulipas hacia el este, con el de Coahuila hacia el oeste, al sur con los estados de Zacatecas y San Luis Po...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nuevo León |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈnweβ̞o leˈõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nuevo León” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Nuevo León is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnweβ̞o leˈõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Uno de los 32 estados de México se ubica al noreste del país, colinda con el estado de Tamaulipas hacia el este, con el de Coahuila hacia el oeste, al sur con los estados de Zacatecas y San Luis Po...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nuevo León in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Nuevo León, spelled N-U-E-V-O- -L-E-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uno de los 32 estados de México se ubica al noreste del país, colinda con el estado de Tamaulipas hacia el este, con el de Coahuila hacia el oeste, al sur con los estados de Zacatecas y San Luis Potosí y al norte comparte una frontera de 15 kilómetros con el estado de Texas en Estados Unidos. Su capital es la ciudad de Monterrey.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Nuevo León”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-U-E-V-O- -L-E-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈnweβ̞o leˈõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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