CountriesMexicoRank 13 of 9813 words9 placesMexico13 English words in this atlas point back to Mexico, spread across 9 places.ShareWordThe placeRelationshipConfidencejalapeñoThe pepper is named for Xalapa in Veracruz.XalapaFrom its productWell attestedtabascoThe sauce is named for a Mexican state.TabascoFrom its productWell attestedtequilaThe spirit is a town in Jalisco.TequilaFrom its productWell attestedChihuahuaThe smallest dog is named for the largest Mexican state.ChihuahuaFrom the placeWell attestedJuarezA border city named for a president lends its name onward.Ciudad JuarezIndirectWell attestedOaxacaThe stretched-curd cheese is named for a southern Mexican state.OaxacaFrom its productWell attestedTabasco sauceThe sauce is named for a Mexican state.TabascoFrom its productWell attestedMexican waveBritish television named it for Mexico; American crowds had done it for years.MexicoFrom the placeWell attestedcosaliteIts exact composition resisted settlement for over a century because lead and bismuth are almost indistinguishable to X-rays.CosaláFrom the placeWell attestedMexican standoffThe three-way gunfight everyone pictures is a hundred years younger than the phrase.MexicoFrom the placeWell attestedMexpatThe reverse of Texpat: the same ending, the opposite direction of travel.MexicoIndirectWell attestedTijuana BibleThe booklets were printed in the northeastern United States, but the name blamed a Mexican border town.TijuanaFrom the placeWell attestedMexican overdriveA gearbox setting named after a country that had nothing to do with it.MexicoFrom its peopleWell attestedElsewhere in the atlasUnited States153United Kingdom108Italy63France57Germany29Greece29Canada22Turkey22People's Republic of China21Spain20Japan18India16Belgium12Australia11All 98 countries →