Río de Janeiro
[ˈrio ð̞e xaˈnejɾo]
The verdict
“Río de Janeiro” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - es una ciudad de Brasil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Río de Janeiro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈrio ð̞e xaˈnejɾo] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Río de Janeiro” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Río de Janeiro is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrio ð̞e xaˈnejɾo]. 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: "es una ciudad de Brasil.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Río de Janeiro 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 Río de Janeiro, spelled R-Í-O- -D-E- -J-A-N-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1es una ciudad de Brasil.
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 “Río de Janeiro”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-Í-O- -D-E- -J-A-N-E-I-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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