Irkutsk
[ɪʁˈkʊt͡sk]
The verdict
“Irkutsk” is uncommon German (frequency #94,454 among 17,725 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,454
- frequency rank, German
- 17,725
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stadt in Sibirien, Russland
Corpus desk
Index DE-irkutsk · Irkutsk · German
Irkutsk · rank #94,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,454
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,725
- PHOTO-FINISH involvieren
Nearest frequency peer: involvieren (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Irkutsk”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Intriganten
Intriganten
5,550 corpus weight
- Investmentg…
Investmentgesellschaft
5,549 corpus weight
- involvieren
involvieren
5,548 corpus weight
- Irkutsk
Irkutsk
5,547 corpus weight
- Isaacs
Isaacs
5,545 corpus weight
- Ischias
Ischias
5,544 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Irkutsk” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irkutsk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɪʁˈkʊt͡sk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Irkutsk” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Irkutsk is uncommon German at frequency #94,454 among 17,725 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ɪʁˈkʊt͡sk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt in Sibirien, Russland".
Zero misspellings are on record for Irkutsk in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Irkutsk, spelled I-R-K-U-T-S-K.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Sibirien, Russland
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Irkutsk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.