Mexico

/\mɛk.si.ko\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,255

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Mexico is aFrenchname. It means: Ville du Mexique dont le nom officiel est Ciudad de México (« Ville de Mexico »). C’est la capitale du pays et l’une des plus grandes villes du monde. La ville compte 8,605,239 habitants (2000) mai... Pronounced \mɛk.si.ko\.

Key facts for Mexico
PropertyValue
HeadwordMexico
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\mɛk.si.ko\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,255
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Mexico in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Mexico is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛk.si.ko\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,255 in overall French 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.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mexico, with forms such as "emxico", "meixco", and "mexcio". 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 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 French form is Mexico, spelled M-E-X-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville du Mexique dont le nom officiel est Ciudad de México (« Ville de Mexico »). C’est la capitale du pays et l’une des plus grandes villes du monde. La ville compte 8,605,239 habitants (2000) mais l’agglomération compte plus de 18,000,000 d’habitants (2006) et s’étend sur plus de 1,500 km².
  2. 2
    État de Mexico.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emxico,meixco,mexcio,mexicco,mexioc,mexxico,mmexico,mxeico

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Mexico

Misspelling Variants of "Mexico"

emxico6meixco6mexcio6mexicco7mexioc6mexxico7mmexico7mxeico6
Misspelling Variants of "Mexico"

Frequency rank: #11,255 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Mexico"?
"Mexico" is spelled M-E-X-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛk.si.ko\.
What does "Mexico" mean?
As a name, "Mexico" means: Ville du Mexique dont le nom officiel est Ciudad de México (« Ville de Mexico »). C’est la capitale du pays et l’une des plus grandes villes du monde. La ville compte 8,605,239 habitants (2000) mai...
What are common misspellings of "Mexico"?
Common misspellings include "emxico", "meixco", "mexcio", "mexicco", "mexioc". The correct spelling is "Mexico".
How do you pronounce "Mexico"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Mexico" is \mɛk.si.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Mexico" come from?
"Mexico" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.