Curitiba
/kjʊə.ɹiˈtʃiː.bə/
"curitiba" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Curitiba” is uncommon English (frequency #52,251 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,251
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A municipality and state capital of Paraná, Brazil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-curitiba · Curitiba · English
Curitiba · rank #52,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,251
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH curler
Nearest frequency peer: curler (+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 “Curitiba”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cricketing
cricketing
47,754 corpus weight
- Curitiba
Curitiba
47,750 corpus weight
- curler
curler
47,749 corpus weight
- currant
currant
47,748 corpus weight
- cutaway
cutaway
47,747 corpus weight
- dari
dari
47,746 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Curitiba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Curitiba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kjʊə.ɹiˈtʃiː.bə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Curitiba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Curitiba is uncommon English at frequency #52,251 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kjʊə.ɹiˈtʃiː.bə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A municipality and state capital of Paraná, Brazil.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Curitiba in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Curitiba, spelled C-U-R-I-T-I-B-A.
Definition
- 1A municipality and state capital of Paraná, Brazil.
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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