Kagoshima
[kaɣ̞oˈʃima]
The verdict
“Kagoshima” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #87,992 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #87,992
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ciudad de la isla Kyushü, capital de la prefectura homónima. Japón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kagoshima |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kaɣ̞oˈʃima] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kagoshima” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Kagoshima is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɣ̞oˈʃima]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,992 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad de la isla Kyushü, capital de la prefectura homónima. Japón.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kagoshima in our index, 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Kagoshima, spelled K-A-G-O-S-H-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de la isla Kyushü, capital de la prefectura homónima. Japón.
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.
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Using “Kagoshima”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-A-G-O-S-H-I-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaɣ̞oˈʃima] (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.