Tirana
/tɪˈɹɑː.nə/
"tirana" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tirana” is uncommon English (frequency #52,676 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,676
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A municipality, the capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and munici...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tirana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tirana” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tirana is uncommon English at frequency #52,676 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Tirana has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Albanian Tiranë/Tirana. The correct English form is Tirana, spelled T-I-R-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1A municipality, the capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
- 2A county of Albania.
Etymology
From Albanian Tiranë/Tirana.
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 “Tirana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-I-R-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/ (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.