Sonora
[soˈnoɾa]
The verdict
“Sonora” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,948 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #4,948
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
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 | Sonora |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [soˈnoɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sonora” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Sonora is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sonora, with forms such as "osnora", "snoora", and "sonnora". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sonoro", "sonría", "soporta", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Sonora, spelled S-O-N-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Uno 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 una extensa frontera con el estado de Arizona en Estados Unidos y hacia el poniente colinda con el Mar de Cortés o Golfo de California . Su capital es la ciudad de Hermosillo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osnora,snoora,sonnora,sonoar,sonorra,sonroa,soonra,ssonora
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sonora - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Sonora”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-O-N-O-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [soˈnoɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sonoro” - see the side-by-side comparison. Sonora vs sonoro
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.