Sinaloa

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The Spanish entry for Sinaloa is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sinaˈloa]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,368 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Es uno de los 32 estados de México, situado al noroeste del país, en la costa del Golfo de California. Limita al norte con Sonora, al este con Chihuahua y Durango (separado de ellos por la Sierra M...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sinaloa, with forms such as "cinaloa", "isnaloa", and "sianloa". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "señala", "señalo", "sinagoga", 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 Sinaloa, spelled S-I-N-A-L-O-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.