Tabasco
[t̪aˈβ̞asko]
The verdict
“Tabasco” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,903 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #9,903
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uno de los 32 estados de México localizado en el sureste de México. Comparte frontera con la República de Guatemala y tambien con los siguientes estados del país: Campeche, Chiapas y Veracruz. Su c...
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 | Tabasco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [t̪aˈβ̞asko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tabasco” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Tabasco is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aˈβ̞asko]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,903 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 México localizado en el sureste de México. Comparte frontera con la República de Guatemala y tambien con los siguientes estados del país: Campeche, Chiapas y Veracruz. Su c...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tabasco, with forms such as "atbasco", "taabsco", and "tabacso". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tabaco", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Tabasco, spelled T-A-B-A-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Uno de los 32 estados de México localizado en el sureste de México. Comparte frontera con la República de Guatemala y tambien con los siguientes estados del país: Campeche, Chiapas y Veracruz. Su capital es la ciudad de Villahermosa. Su gentilicio es tabasqueño.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atbasco,taabsco,tabacso,tabascco,tabasoc,tabassco,tabbasco,tabsaco,tavasco,tbaasco,ttabasco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tabasco - 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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Using “Tabasco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-A-B-A-S-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪aˈβ̞asko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tabaco” - see the side-by-side comparison. Tabasco vs tabaco
- 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.