Islamabad
[islamaˈβ̞að̞]
The verdict
“Islamabad” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,149 among 22,782 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,149
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 22,782
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - es la capital de Pakistán, cuya construcción fue iniciada en 1954, 15 km al NE de Rawalpindi.
Corpus desk
Index ES-islamabad · Islamabad · Spanish
Islamabad · rank #57,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,149
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 22,782
- PHOTO-FINISH intrépida
Nearest frequency peer: intrépida (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Islamabad”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- interfase
interfase
42,856 corpus weight
- intermediar…
intermediaria
42,855 corpus weight
- interracial
interracial
42,854 corpus weight
- intrépida
intrépida
42,853 corpus weight
- Islamabad
Islamabad
42,852 corpus weight
- Jacksonville
Jacksonville
42,848 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Islamabad” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Islamabad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [islamaˈβ̞að̞] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Islamabad” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Islamabad is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,149 among 22,782 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [islamaˈβ̞að̞]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "es la capital de Pakistán, cuya construcción fue iniciada en 1954, 15 km al NE de Rawalpindi.".
Islamabad doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Islamabad, spelled I-S-L-A-M-A-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1es la capital de Pakistán, cuya construcción fue iniciada en 1954, 15 km al NE de Rawalpindi.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Islamabad", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.