Sri Lanka

/\ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\/ name

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Sri Lanka is aFrenchname. It means: Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo. Pronounced \ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\.

Key facts for Sri Lanka
PropertyValue
HeadwordSri Lanka
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Sri Lanka is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Sri Lanka is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\. 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: "Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Sri Lanka in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Sri Lanka, spelled S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sri Lanka"?
"Sri Lanka" is spelled S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\.
What does "Sri Lanka" mean?
As a name, "Sri Lanka" means: Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo.
How do you pronounce "Sri Lanka"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sri Lanka" is \ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sri Lanka" come from?
"Sri Lanka" is a French 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.