Irkutsk
/iɹˈkʊtsk/
"irkutsk" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Irkutsk” is uncommon English (frequency #66,753 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,753
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An oblast of Russia in Siberia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irkutsk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /iɹˈkʊtsk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Irkutsk” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Irkutsk is uncommon English at frequency #66,753 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /iɹˈkʊtsk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Irkutsk has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian Ирку́тск (Irkútsk). The correct English form is Irkutsk, spelled I-R-K-U-T-S-K.
Definition
- 1An oblast of Russia in Siberia.
- 2A city, the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Ирку́тск (Irkútsk).
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 “Irkutsk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-R-K-U-T-S-K - 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.