# Nagasaki

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/ · frequency rank #29,753

## Definitions
1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
2. A prefecture of Japan.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

## Common misspellings (11)
`angasaki`, `naagsaki`, `nagaaski`, `nagasaik`, `nagasakki`, `nagaskai`, `nagassaki`, `naggasaki`, `nagsaaki`, `ngaasaki`, `nnagasaki`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/nagasaki