Kaaba
/ˈkɑːbə/
"kaaba" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kaaba” is uncommon English (frequency #69,168 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,168
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kaaba · Kaaba · English
Kaaba · rank #69,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,168
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Jumeirah
Nearest frequency peer: Jumeirah (-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 “Kaaba”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jist
jist
30,839 corpus weight
- Judaic
Judaic
30,835 corpus weight
- Jumeirah
Jumeirah
30,834 corpus weight
- Kaaba
Kaaba
30,833 corpus weight
- Kamakura
Kamakura
30,831 corpus weight
- Kanagawa
Kanagawa
30,830 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kaaba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Kaaba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kaaba is uncommon English at frequency #69,168 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkɑːbə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).