Sonora

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The Spanish entry for Sonora is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soˈnoɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,948 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Uno de los 32 estados de la República Mexicana, se ubica al noroeste del territorio. Colinda con los estados de Chihuahua al oriente, Sinaloa al sur y Baja California al noroeste. Al norte comparte...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sonora, with forms such as "osnora", "snoora", and "sonnora". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sonoro", "sonría", "soporta", and more, 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 Sonora, spelled S-O-N-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.