Gaborone
/ˌɡæbəˈɹəʊni/
"gaborone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gaborone” is uncommon English (frequency #75,896 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,896
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Botswana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gaborone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌɡæbəˈɹəʊni/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gaborone” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Gaborone is uncommon English at frequency #75,896 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌɡæbəˈɹəʊni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Botswana.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gaborone in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after chief Gaborone. The name itself apparently derives from Tswana [Term?] (“it does not fit badly”), from the verb rona (“to be unsuitable”). The correct English form is Gaborone, spelled G-A-B-O-R-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Botswana.
Etymology
Named after chief Gaborone. The name itself apparently derives from Tswana [Term?] (“it does not fit badly”), from the verb rona (“to be unsuitable”).
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 “Gaborone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-A-B-O-R-O-N-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.