Sri Lanka

/[ˈsɾi ˈlãŋka]/ name

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Sri Lanka is aSpanishname. It means: País de Asia, que se asienta en la isla de Ceilán, ubicada en el océano Índico, al sur de la India. Pronounced [ˈsɾi ˈlãŋka].

Key facts for Sri Lanka
PropertyValue
HeadwordSri Lanka
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈsɾi ˈlãŋka]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Sri Lanka is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsɾi ˈlãŋka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País de Asia, que se asienta en la isla de Ceilán, ubicada en el océano Índico, al sur de la India.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Sri Lanka in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Sri Lanka, spelled S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    País de Asia, que se asienta en la isla de Ceilán, ubicada en el océano Índico, al sur de la India.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sri Lanka"?
"Sri Lanka" is spelled S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsɾi ˈlãŋka].
What does "Sri Lanka" mean?
As a name, "Sri Lanka" means: País de Asia, que se asienta en la isla de Ceilán, ubicada en el océano Índico, al sur de la India.
How do you pronounce "Sri Lanka"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sri Lanka" is [ˈsɾi ˈlãŋka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sri Lanka" come from?
"Sri Lanka" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.