Rabaul
/ɹəˈbaʊl/
"rabaul" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rabaul” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,058 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #78,058
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and former provincial capital in northern New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
| 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) |
Where “Rabaul” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Rabaul is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹəˈbaʊl/. Corpus data places it at rank #78,058 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Rabaul”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-A-B-A-U-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.