Yarlung Zangbo
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yarlung Zangbo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yarlung Zangbo” sits in English frequency
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
- 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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Using “Yarlung Zangbo”
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- 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.