Banjul

name

"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.

Key facts for Banjul
PropertyValue
HeadwordBanjul
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Banjul” in English

Banjulranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    The capital city of the Gambia.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Banjul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Banjul"?
"Banjul" is spelled B-A-N-J-U-L.
What does "Banjul" mean?
As a proper noun, "Banjul" means: The capital city of the Gambia.
What language does "Banjul" come from?
"Banjul" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list