Ankara
/ˈæŋ.kə.ɹə/
"ankara" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ankara” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,013
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ankara · Ankara · English
Ankara · rank #18,013 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,013
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH appropriations
Nearest frequency peer: appropriations (+1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Ankara”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- anecdotes
anecdotes
81,991 corpus weight
- Anglican
Anglican
81,990 corpus weight
- Ankara
Ankara
81,988 corpus weight
- appropriati…
appropriations
81,987 corpus weight
- apron
apron
81,986 corpus weight
- archaic
archaic
81,985 corpus weight
What this shows “Ankara” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ankara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈæŋ.kə.ɹə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Ankara”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ankara (IPA /ˈæŋ.kə.ɹə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,013 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ankara, with forms such as "aknara", "anakra", and "ankaar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Anwar", "Ansar", "Ansari", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Turkish Ankara and Ottoman Turkish آنقره (Ankara), from Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor, hook”) in reference to the bend in the Çölova River before it merges with the Cubuk to become the Ankara but probab… The correct English form is Ankara, spelled A-N-K-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province.
- 2The Turkish government.
- 3A province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city.
- 4A small river in Ankara Province, Turkey near the city, a tributary of the Sakarya.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ankara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was born in New Jersey and grew up mostly in Ankara and Istanbul, in an upper-middle-class family, spending summers with relatives in the U.S. and watching a lot of American TV.
Etymology
From Turkish Ankara and Ottoman Turkish آنقره (Ankara), from Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor, hook”) in reference to the bend in the Çölova River before it merges with the Cubuk to become the Ankara but probably also calquing a local name ultimately derived from Hittite 𒌷𒀭𒆪𒉿 (Ankuwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“elbow, bend, curve”). The river and province are named for the city. Doublet of Angora, angle, and anchor.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aknara
- anakra
- ankaar
- ankarra
- ankkara
- ankraa
- annkara
- nakara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ankara - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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