Luanda
/luˈændə/
"luanda" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Luanda” is uncommon English (frequency #60,250 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,250
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Angola.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luanda |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /luˈændə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Luanda” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Luanda is uncommon English at frequency #60,250 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /luˈændə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Luanda has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Luanda, spelled L-U-A-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Angola.
- 2A market town in Kenya.
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 “Luanda”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-U-A-N-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /luˈændə/ (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.