Rabaul
/ɹəˈbaʊl/
"rabaul" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rabaul” is uncommon English (frequency #78,058 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,058
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town and former provincial capital in northern New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rabaul · Rabaul · English
Rabaul · rank #78,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,058
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH qubit
Nearest frequency peer: qubit (-2 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 “Rabaul”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pushchair
pushchair
21,949 corpus weight
- quadrangular
quadrangular
21,948 corpus weight
- qubit
qubit
21,945 corpus weight
- Rabaul
Rabaul
21,943 corpus weight
- RBG
RBG
21,938 corpus weight
- recurved
recurved
21,937 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rabaul” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rabaul |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹəˈbaʊl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rabaul” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rabaul is uncommon English at frequency #78,058 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɹəˈbaʊl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town and former provincial capital in northern New Britain, Papua New Guinea.".
Rabaul doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tolai baul (“mangrove”) or Rabaul (“Rabaul”) The correct English form is Rabaul, spelled R-A-B-A-U-L.
Definition
- 1A town and former provincial capital in northern New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tolai baul (“mangrove”) or Rabaul (“Rabaul”)
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).