Kurd
/kɜːd/
"kurd" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kurd” is uncommon English (frequency #55,543 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,543
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kurd |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɜːd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kurd” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kurd is uncommon English at frequency #55,543 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɜːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.".
Kurd doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds. The correct English form is Kurd, spelled K-U-R-D.
Definition
- 1A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
Etymology
Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.
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 “Kurd”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-U-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɜːd/ (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.