Kotlin
"kotlin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kotlin” is uncommon English (frequency #86,438 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,438
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kotlin · Kotlin · English
Kotlin · rank #86,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,438
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kolmogorov
Nearest frequency peer: Kolmogorov (-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 “Kotlin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Koirala
Koirala
13,566 corpus weight
- Kolmogorov
Kolmogorov
13,564 corpus weight
- Kotlin
Kotlin
13,563 corpus weight
- Krakatoa
Krakatoa
13,562 corpus weight
- kuh
kuh
13,561 corpus weight
- Kwiatkowski
Kwiatkowski
13,560 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kotlin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kotlin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kotlin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kotlin is uncommon English at frequency #86,438 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kotlin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after Kotlin Island (Russian Ко́тлин (Kótlin)), near St. Petersburg, by analogy to the related language Java, whose name ultimately comes from an Indonesian island. The correct English form is Kotlin, spelled K-O-T-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java.
Etymology
Named after Kotlin Island (Russian Ко́тлин (Kótlin)), near St. Petersburg, by analogy to the related language Java, whose name ultimately comes from an Indonesian island.
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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