Teotihuacán
The verdict
“Teotihuacán” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #49,978 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #49,978
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Antigua ciudad de Mesoamérica.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teotihuacán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [t̪eot̪iwaˈkãn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Teotihuacán” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Teotihuacán is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eot̪iwaˈkãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,978 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Teotihuacán, with forms such as "etotihuacán", "teoithuacán", and "teothiuacán". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 Teotihuacán, spelled T-E-O-T-I-H-U-A-C-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Antigua ciudad de Mesoamérica.
- 2Uno de los 125 municipios del Estado de México y uno de los municipios que integran la Región Ecatepec, se ubica al noreste de la Ciudad de México en dirección hacia el Estado de Hidalgo, siendo un lugar de transición entre el Valle de México y los Llanos de Apan. Teotihuacán limita al norte con el municipio de San Martín de las Pirámides, al sur con el municipio de Acolman, al suroeste con el municipio de Tecámac, al este con el municipio de Otumba y al oeste con el municipio de Temascalapa.
- 3Es el nombre de la cabecera municipal del municipio homónimo, también se le conoce a la localidad como San Juan Teotihuacán o Teotihuacán de Arista.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etotihuacán,teoithuacán,teothiuacán,teotihaucán,teotihhuacán,teotihuaccán,teotihuacná,teotihuacánn,teotihuaácn,teotihucaán,teotiuhacán,teottihuacán,tetoihuacán,toetihuacán,tteotihuacán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Teotihuacán — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Teotihuacán"
Frequency rank: #49,978 in Spanish
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Using “Teotihuacán”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-O-T-I-H-U-A-C-Á-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eot̪iwaˈkãn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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