Kaaba
/ˈkɑːbə/
"kaaba" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kaaba” is an uncommon English word, ranked #69,168 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #69,168
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaaba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɑːbə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kaaba” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Kaaba is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɑːbə/. Corpus data places it at rank #69,168 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kaaba, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba, “cube”). The correct English form is Kaaba, spelled K-A-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba, “cube”).
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 “Kaaba”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-A-A-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkɑːbə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.