Vaupés

/[bawˈpes]/ name

The verdict

“Vaupés” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #97,983 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#97,983
frequency rank, Spanish
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Departamento de Colombia, ubicado en la Amazonía, al suroriente del país. Coordenadas decimales: 0.944781°, -70.795898°. Su territorio ocupa una superficie de 54.135 km².

Key facts for Vaupés
PropertyValue
HeadwordVaupés
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[bawˈpes]
Letters6
Frequency rank#97,983
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Vaupés” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Vaupés lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Vaupés is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bawˈpes]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,983 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Vaupés 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 Vaupés, spelled V-A-U-P-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Departamento de Colombia, ubicado en la Amazonía, al suroriente del país. Coordenadas decimales: 0.944781°, -70.795898°. Su territorio ocupa una superficie de 54.135 km².
  2. 2
    Río de la Amazonía colombiana y brasileña, que recorre 1.050 km. en dirección occidente-oriente, y desemboca en el río Negro, a su vez afluente del Amazonas.

Frequency rank: #97,983 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vaupés"?
"Vaupés" is spelled V-A-U-P-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is [bawˈpes].
What does "Vaupés" mean?
As a proper noun, "Vaupés" means: Departamento de Colombia, ubicado en la Amazonía, al suroriente del país. Coordenadas decimales: 0.944781°, -70.795898°. Su territorio ocupa una superficie de 54.135 km².
How do you pronounce "Vaupés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vaupés" is [bawˈpes]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Vaupés" come from?
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Using “Vaupés”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is V-A-U-P-É-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [bawˈpes] (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

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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.