Timor-Leste
[t̪iˈmoɾ ˈlest̪e]
The verdict
“Timor-Leste” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — un país de Oceanía (Código ISO 626 / TLS / TL), ubicado en la parte oriental de la isla de Timor, entre Indonesia y Australia, comprende también Oecusse en la parte norte de Timor y un par de islot...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Timor-Leste |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈmoɾ ˈlest̪e] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Timor-Leste” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Timor-Leste is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈmoɾ ˈlest̪e]. 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: "un país de Oceanía (Código ISO 626 / TLS / TL), ubicado en la parte oriental de la isla de Timor, entre Indonesia y Australia, comprende también Oecusse en la parte norte de Timor y un par de islot...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Timor-Leste in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 Timor-Leste, spelled T-I-M-O-R---L-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1un país de Oceanía (Código ISO 626 / TLS / TL), ubicado en la parte oriental de la isla de Timor, entre Indonesia y Australia, comprende también Oecusse en la parte norte de Timor y un par de islotes. Su capital es Dili. El gentilicio es timorense.
Synonyms
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Using “Timor-Leste”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-M-O-R---L-E-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪iˈmoɾ ˈlest̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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