Gabun

/[ɡaˈbuːn]/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#69,245

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Gabun is aGermanname. It means: Land in Zentralafrika Pronounced [ɡaˈbuːn].

Key facts for Gabun
PropertyValue
HeadwordGabun
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[ɡaˈbuːn]
Letters5
Frequency rank#69,245
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Gabun in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Gabun is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡaˈbuːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,245 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Land in Zentralafrika".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gabun in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German 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 German form is Gabun, spelled G-A-B-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Land in Zentralafrika

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #69,245 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gabun"?
"Gabun" is spelled G-A-B-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡaˈbuːn].
What does "Gabun" mean?
As a name, "Gabun" means: Land in Zentralafrika
How do you pronounce "Gabun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Gabun" is [ɡaˈbuːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Gabun" come from?
"Gabun" is a German 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.