Turquía

/[t̪uɾˈkia]/ name

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,663

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

Turquía is aSpanishname. It means: País ubicado en Asia Menor, de mayoría musulmana. Por Europa, limita con Armenia, Georgia, el mar Negro, Bulgaria y Grecia, mientras que por Asia lo hace con el mar Mediterráneo, Siria, Irak e Irán. Pronounced [t̪uɾˈkia]. It ranks #4,663 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with turbia and turquesa.

Key facts for Turquía
PropertyValue
HeadwordTurquía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[t̪uɾˈkia]
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,663
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Turquía in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Turquía is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪uɾˈkia]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,663 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País ubicado en Asia Menor, de mayoría musulmana. Por Europa, limita con Armenia, Georgia, el mar Negro, Bulgaria y Grecia, mientras que por Asia lo hace con el mar Mediterráneo, Siria, Irak e Irán.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Turquía, with forms such as "truquía", "tturquía", and "tuqruía". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "turbia", "turquesa", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Turquía, spelled T-U-R-Q-U-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    País ubicado en Asia Menor, de mayoría musulmana. Por Europa, limita con Armenia, Georgia, el mar Negro, Bulgaria y Grecia, mientras que por Asia lo hace con el mar Mediterráneo, Siria, Irak e Irán.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: truquía,tturquía,tuqruía,turqquía,turquaí,turqíua,turrquía,turuqía,utrquía

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Turquía

Misspelling Variants of "Turquía"

truquía7tturquía8tuqruía7turqquía8turquaí7turqíua7turrquía8turuqía7
Misspelling Variants of "Turquía"

Frequency rank: #4,663 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Turquía"?
"Turquía" is spelled T-U-R-Q-U-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪uɾˈkia].
What does "Turquía" mean?
As a name, "Turquía" means: País ubicado en Asia Menor, de mayoría musulmana. Por Europa, limita con Armenia, Georgia, el mar Negro, Bulgaria y Grecia, mientras que por Asia lo hace con el mar Mediterráneo, Siria, Irak e Irán.
What words are commonly confused with "Turquía"?
"Turquía" is commonly confused with "turbia", "turquesa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Turquía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Turquía" is [t̪uɾˈkia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Turquía" come from?
"Turquía" 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.