Phnom Penh
The verdict
“Phnom Penh” 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: Capital de Camboya.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phnom Penh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈfnõm ˈpẽn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Phnom Penh” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Phnom Penh is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfnõm ˈpẽn]. 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: "Capital de Camboya.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Phnom Penh 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 Phnom Penh, spelled P-H-N-O-M- -P-E-N-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capital de Camboya.
This word in other languages
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 “Phnom Penh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-H-N-O-M- -P-E-N-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfnõm ˈpẽn] (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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