# Istanbul

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ɪ.stænˈbʊl/ · frequency rank #10,563

## Definitions
1. A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
2. A province in Turkey.

## Etymology
From Turkish İstanbul, from Ottoman Turkish استانبول (İstanbul), a corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.

## Common misspellings (12)
`isatnbul`, `isstanbul`, `istabnul`, `istanbbul`, `istanblu`, `istanbull`, `istannbul`, `istanubl`, `istnabul`, `isttanbul`, `itsanbul`, `sitanbul`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/istanbul