Kowloon
[kowˈloõn]
The verdict
“Kowloon” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,920 among 248 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,920
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-kowloon · Kowloon · Spanish
Kowloon · rank #72,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,920
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH kleenex
Nearest frequency peer: kleenex (-2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Kowloon”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- juna
juna
27,087 corpus weight
- jurisconsul…
jurisconsulto
27,086 corpus weight
- kleenex
kleenex
27,083 corpus weight
- Kowloon
Kowloon
27,081 corpus weight
- Labordeta
Labordeta
27,076 corpus weight
- lamente
lamente
27,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Kowloon” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “Kowloon” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Kowloon is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,920 among 248 “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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