Oaxaca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,022
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Oaxaca is aSpanishname. It means: Es uno de los 32 estados de México, se ubica al sur del país, en el extremo suroeste del istmo de Tehuantepec. Colinda con los estados de Guerrero al oeste, Puebla al noroeste, Veracruz hacia el no... Pronounced [waˈxaka]. It ranks #5,022 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with opaca.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oaxaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [waˈxaka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Oaxaca is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [waˈxaka]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,022 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Oaxaca, with forms such as "aoxaca", "oaaxca", and "oaxaac". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "opaca", 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 Oaxaca, spelled O-A-X-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Es uno de los 32 estados de México, se ubica al sur del país, en el extremo suroeste del istmo de Tehuantepec. Colinda con los estados de Guerrero al oeste, Puebla al noroeste, Veracruz hacia el norte y Chiapas al este. Su capital es la ciudad de Oaxaca y su gentilicio es oaxaqueño.
- 2Ciudad de la República Mexicana, ciudad capital del estado de Oaxaca.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aoxaca,oaaxca,oaxaac,oaxacca,oaxcaa,oaxxaca,oxaaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Oaxaca
Misspelling Variants of "Oaxaca"
Frequency rank: #5,022 in Spanish
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