Yarlung Zangbo

name

"yarlung-zangbo" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Yarlung Zangbo” 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
14
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.

Key facts for Yarlung Zangbo
PropertyValue
HeadwordYarlung Zangbo
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Yarlung Zangbo” sits in English frequency

Yarlung Zangbo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Yarlung Zangbo is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.".

Yarlung Zangbo has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po). The correct English form is Yarlung Zangbo, spelled Y-A-R-L-U-N-G- -Z-A-N-G-B-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    The 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yarlung Zangbo"?
"Yarlung Zangbo" is spelled Y-A-R-L-U-N-G- -Z-A-N-G-B-O.
What does "Yarlung Zangbo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yarlung Zangbo" means: The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
What is the origin of the word "Yarlung Zangbo"?
Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “Yarlung Zangbo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is Y-A-R-L-U-N-G- -Z-A-N-G-B-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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list