Kalmar
"kalmar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kalmar” is uncommon English (frequency #76,024 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,024
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small city and municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kalmar · Kalmar · English
Kalmar · rank #76,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kapp
Nearest frequency peer: kapp (+2 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 “Kalmar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jovian
Jovian
23,985 corpus weight
- juvenal
juvenal
23,980 corpus weight
- Kalmar
Kalmar
23,977 corpus weight
- kapp
kapp
23,975 corpus weight
- Kedah
Kedah
23,971 corpus weight
- Kelantan
Kelantan
23,970 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kalmar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kalmar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kalmar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kalmar is uncommon English at frequency #76,024 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kalmar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Swedish Kalmar. The correct English form is Kalmar, spelled K-A-L-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1A small city and municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden.
- 2A county in south-east Sweden.
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish Kalmar.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).