Coolangatta

name

"coolangatta" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Coolangatta” is uncommon English (frequency #97,970 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#97,970
frequency rank, English
43,570
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which is next to Tweed Heads, New South Wales.

Key facts for Coolangatta
PropertyValue
HeadwordCoolangatta
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters11
Frequency rank#97,970
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Coolangatta” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Coolangatta lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Coolangatta is uncommon English at frequency #97,970 among 43,570 “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

  1. 1
    A coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which is next to Tweed Heads, New South Wales.
  2. 2
    A locality in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Coolangatta"?
"Coolangatta" is spelled C-O-O-L-A-N-G-A-T-T-A.
What does "Coolangatta" mean?
As a proper noun, "Coolangatta" means: A coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which is next to Tweed Heads, New South Wales.
What language does "Coolangatta" come from?
"Coolangatta" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Coolangatta”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is C-O-O-L-A-N-G-A-T-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list