Yarlung Tsangpo
/ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/
"yarlung-tsangpo" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yarlung Tsangpo” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yarlung Tsangpo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yarlung Tsangpo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Yarlung Tsangpo is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Yarlung Tsangpo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po). The correct English form is Yarlung Tsangpo, spelled Y-A-R-L-U-N-G- -T-S-A-N-G-P-O.
Definition
- 1The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is Y-A-R-L-U-N-G- -T-S-A-N-G-P-O - 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.