Brazzaville
/ˈbɹɑːzəvɪl/
"brazzaville" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Brazzaville” is uncommon English (frequency #64,228 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,228
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital and largest city in the Republic of the Congo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brazzaville |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹɑːzəvɪl/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Brazzaville” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Brazzaville is uncommon English at frequency #64,228 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈbɹɑːzəvɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital and largest city in the Republic of the Congo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Brazzaville in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Brazzaville, from Brazza + ville (“city”). Named after Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), who officially founded the settlement in 1880. The correct English form is Brazzaville, spelled B-R-A-Z-Z-A-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1The capital and largest city in the Republic of the Congo.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Brazzaville, from Brazza + ville (“city”). Named after Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), who officially founded the settlement in 1880.
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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Using “Brazzaville”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-R-A-Z-Z-A-V-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.