Kowloon
[kowˈloõn]
The verdict
“Kowloon” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,920 among 3,662 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,920
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,662
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ciudad de Hong Kong, en la extremidad suroccidental de la península homónima, frente a la isla de Hong Kong; está constituida por los dos núcleos de K. y de Nueva Kowloon. Unida mediante un transbo...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kowloon |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kowˈloõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kowloon” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kowloon is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,920 among 3,662 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kowˈloõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ciudad de Hong Kong, en la extremidad suroccidental de la península homónima, frente a la isla de Hong Kong; está constituida por los dos núcleos de K. y de Nueva Kowloon. Unida mediante un transbo...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kowloon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Kowloon, spelled K-O-W-L-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Hong Kong, en la extremidad suroccidental de la península homónima, frente a la isla de Hong Kong; está constituida por los dos núcleos de K. y de Nueva Kowloon. Unida mediante un transbordador y un túnel submarino con Victoria.
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 “Kowloon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-O-W-L-O-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kowˈloõn] (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.