San Luis Potosí

/[ˈsãn ˈlwis pot̪oˈsi]/ name

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

San Luis Potosí is aSpanishname. It means: Es uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el centro norte del país, colinda al norte con Nuevo León, al noreste con Tamaulipas, al noroeste con Coahuila, al este con Veracruz, al sureste con H... Pronounced [ˈsãn ˈlwis pot̪oˈsi].

Key facts for San Luis Potosí
PropertyValue
HeadwordSan Luis Potosí
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈsãn ˈlwis pot̪oˈsi]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

San Luis Potosí is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for San Luis Potosí is 15 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsãn ˈlwis pot̪oˈsi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for San Luis Potosí 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 San Luis Potosí, spelled S-A-N- -L-U-I-S- -P-O-T-O-S-Í, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Es uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el centro norte del país, colinda al norte con Nuevo León, al noreste con Tamaulipas, al noroeste con Coahuila, al este con Veracruz, al sureste con Hidalgo, al sur con Querétaro y Guanajuato, y al oeste con Zacatecas. Su capital es la ciudad de San Luis Potosí.
  2. 2
    Ciudad mexicana, capital del estado de San Luis Potosí.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "San Luis Potosí"?
"San Luis Potosí" is spelled S-A-N- -L-U-I-S- -P-O-T-O-S-Í. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsãn ˈlwis pot̪oˈsi].
What does "San Luis Potosí" mean?
As a name, "San Luis Potosí" means: Es uno de los 32 estados de México, ubicado en el centro norte del país, colinda al norte con Nuevo León, al noreste con Tamaulipas, al noroeste con Coahuila, al este con Veracruz, al sureste con H...
How do you pronounce "San Luis Potosí"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "San Luis Potosí" is [ˈsãn ˈlwis pot̪oˈsi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "San Luis Potosí" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.