Coolangatta
"coolangatta" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Coolangatta” is uncommon English (frequency #97,970 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,970
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which is next to Tweed Heads, New South Wales.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coolangatta · Coolangatta · English
Coolangatta · rank #97,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,970
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cornflour
Nearest frequency peer: cornflour (+1 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 “Coolangatta”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- constitutiv…
constitutively
2,035 corpus weight
- contactor
contactor
2,034 corpus weight
- Coolangatta
Coolangatta
2,031 corpus weight
- cornflour
cornflour
2,030 corpus weight
- corpuscles
corpuscles
2,029 corpus weight
- Cotterell
Cotterell
2,027 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Coolangatta” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coolangatta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Coolangatta” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Coolangatta is uncommon English at frequency #97,970 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Coolangatta has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Coolangatta, spelled C-O-O-L-A-N-G-A-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1A coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which is next to Tweed Heads, New South Wales.
- 2A locality in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Coolangatta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The town of Tweed Heads in the north of New South Wales merges seamlessly into Coolangatta on Queensland's Gold Coast. The two states are ostensibly in the same time zone, but New South Wales observes daylight saving, and Queensland doesn't. That means the twin towns have managed to carve out a peculiar niche as somewhere you can celebrate New Year's Eve…
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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