Sudáfrica
[suˈð̞afɾika]
The verdict
“Sudáfrica” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,440
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - País ubicado en el sur de África. Limita con el océano Atlántico, el océano Índico, Namibia, Botsuana, Zimbabue, Mozambique, Suazilandia y Lesoto, que está enclavado dentro de su territorio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sudafrica · Sudáfrica · Spanish
Sudáfrica · rank #5,440 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,440
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH subiendo
Nearest frequency peer: subiendo (-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 “Sudáfrica”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sexto
sexto
94,564 corpus weight
- sonidos
sonidos
94,563 corpus weight
- subiendo
subiendo
94,562 corpus weight
- Sudáfrica
Sudáfrica
94,561 corpus weight
- sufriendo
sufriendo
94,560 corpus weight
- suyos
suyos
94,559 corpus weight
What this shows “Sudáfrica” 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 | Sudáfrica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [suˈð̞afɾika] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Sudáfrica”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Sudáfrica (IPA [suˈð̞afɾika]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,440 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "País ubicado en el sur de África. Limita con el océano Atlántico, el océano Índico, Namibia, Botsuana, Zimbabue, Mozambique, Suazilandia y Lesoto, que está enclavado dentro de su territorio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sudáfrica, with forms such as "sduáfrica", "ssudáfrica", and "suddáfrica". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Sudamérica", "sudafricano", "sudafricana", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Sudáfrica, spelled S-U-D-Á-F-R-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1País ubicado en el sur de África. Limita con el océano Atlántico, el océano Índico, Namibia, Botsuana, Zimbabue, Mozambique, Suazilandia y Lesoto, que está enclavado dentro de su territorio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sduáfrica
- ssudáfrica
- suddáfrica
- sudfárica
- sudáffrica
- sudáfirca
- sudáfrcia
- sudáfriac
- sudáfricca
- sudáfrrica
- sudárfica
- suádfrica
- usdáfrica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sudáfrica - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sudáfrica", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).