Kinshasa
/kɪnˈʃɑːsə/
"kinshasa" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kinshasa” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,386. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,386
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kinshasa · Kinshasa · English
Kinshasa · rank #39,386 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,386
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH kingship
Nearest frequency peer: kingship (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kinshasa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- juxtaposed
juxtaposed
60,620 corpus weight
- kingship
kingship
60,616 corpus weight
- Kinshasa
Kinshasa
60,615 corpus weight
- Lando
Lando
60,611 corpus weight
- Larissa
Larissa
60,610 corpus weight
- Launceston
Launceston
60,609 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kinshasa” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kinshasa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kɪnˈʃɑːsə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kinshasa” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Kinshasa (IPA /kɪnˈʃɑːsə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,386 among 9,255 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kinshasa, with forms such as "iknshasa", "kinhsasa", and "kinnshasa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Kongo [Term?] (“the salt market”). The correct English form is Kinshasa, spelled K-I-N-S-H-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.
Etymology
From Kongo [Term?] (“the salt market”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iknshasa
- kinhsasa
- kinnshasa
- kinsahsa
- kinshaas
- kinshassa
- kinshhasa
- kinshsaa
- kinsshasa
- kisnhasa
- kkinshasa
- knishasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kinshasa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kinshasa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.