Aqaba
/ˈakəbə/
"aqaba" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aqaba” is uncommon English (frequency #56,585 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,585
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and governorate in Jordan, on the Red Sea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aqaba · Aqaba · English
Aqaba · rank #56,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,585
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anticancer
Nearest frequency peer: anticancer (-2 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 “Aqaba”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Amjad
Amjad
43,422 corpus weight
- annexes
annexes
43,419 corpus weight
- anticancer
anticancer
43,418 corpus weight
- Aqaba
Aqaba
43,416 corpus weight
- ardently
ardently
43,414 corpus weight
- arrogantly
arrogantly
43,411 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Aqaba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aqaba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈakəbə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aqaba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aqaba is uncommon English at frequency #56,585 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈakəbə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and governorate in Jordan, on the Red Sea.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Aqaba, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic العَقَبَة (al-ʕaqaba, literally “the obstacle”). The correct English form is Aqaba, spelled A-Q-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1A city and governorate in Jordan, on the Red Sea.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic العَقَبَة (al-ʕaqaba, literally “the obstacle”).
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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