new spain
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A former viceroyalty (a type of colony) in North America and Central America that existed from 1521 to 1821. It comprised of Spain's territorial possessions in the New World including the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Philippines, established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521.
Example Sentences
- "After Cortés the government of New Spain degenerated under the rule of Nuño de Guzmán, president of the first audiencia, into a brutish exploitation of the Indians."