Aalborg
/ˈɑːlbɔːɡ/
"aalborg" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aalborg” is uncommon English (frequency #80,151 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,151
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A port city, the capital of North Jutland, Denmark; the fourth-largest city in Denmark.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aalborg · Aalborg · English
Aalborg · rank #80,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,151
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adjectival
Nearest frequency peer: adjectival (+4 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Aalborg”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- zinke
zinke
19,858 corpus weight
- ziplock
ziplock
19,857 corpus weight
- Aalborg
Aalborg
19,850 corpus weight
- adjectival
adjectival
19,846 corpus weight
- adobo
adobo
19,845 corpus weight
- agonize
agonize
19,843 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Aalborg” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aalborg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑːlbɔːɡ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aalborg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aalborg is uncommon English at frequency #80,151 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɑːlbɔːɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A port city, the capital of North Jutland, Denmark; the fourth-largest city in Denmark.".
Aalborg has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Aalborg, spelled A-A-L-B-O-R-G.
Definition
- 1A port city, the capital of North Jutland, Denmark; the fourth-largest city in Denmark.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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