Sinaloa
[sinaˈloa]
The verdict
“Sinaloa” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,368
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-sinaloa · Sinaloa · Spanish
Sinaloa · rank #9,368 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH soviético
Nearest frequency peer: soviético (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Sinaloa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- secos
secos
90,635 corpus weight
- Sinaloa
Sinaloa
90,633 corpus weight
- soviético
soviético
90,632 corpus weight
- Steven
Steven
90,631 corpus weight
- suspendido
suspendido
90,630 corpus weight
- tatuaje
tatuaje
90,629 corpus weight
What this shows “Sinaloa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sinaloa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [sinaˈloa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Sinaloa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Sinaloa (IPA [sinaˈloa]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,368 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sinaloa, with forms such as "cinaloa", "isnaloa", and "sianloa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "señala", "señalo", "sinagoga", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is Sinaloa, spelled S-I-N-A-L-O-A.
Definition
- 1Es 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 Madre Occidental) y al sur con Nayarit. Su capital es la ciudad de Culiacán y su gentilicio es sinaloense.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cinaloa
- isnaloa
- sianloa
- sinalao
- sinalloa
- sinaola
- sinlaoa
- sinnaloa
- snialoa
- ssinaloa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sinaloa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).