Constantinople

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The English entry for Constantinople is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnəʊ.pəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #17,577 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for Constantinople, with forms such as "cconstantinople", "cnostantinople", and "connstantinople". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Constantinopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Co… The correct English form is Constantinople, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E.