Banjul
"banjul" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Banjul” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of the Gambia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-banjul · Banjul · English
Banjul · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Banjul |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Banjul” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Banjul is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of the Gambia.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Banjul, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Banjul, spelled B-A-N-J-U-L.
Definition
- 1The capital city of the Gambia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Banjul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I gathered she had a love problem – a young policeman in Banjul whom she rarely saw – and a big plan […] for a family gathering, to which the policeman would be invited.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.