Kurdistán
The verdict
“Kurdistán” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #40,918 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #40,918
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Región donde se asienta el pueblo kurdo, que ocupa partes de Turquía, Irak, Siria e Irán.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kurdistán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kuɾð̞isˈt̪ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kurdistán” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Kurdistán is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuɾð̞isˈt̪ãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,918 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Región donde se asienta el pueblo kurdo, que ocupa partes de Turquía, Irak, Siria e Irán.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kurdistán, with forms such as "kkurdistán", "krudistán", and "kudristán". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Kurdistán, spelled K-U-R-D-I-S-T-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Región donde se asienta el pueblo kurdo, que ocupa partes de Turquía, Irak, Siria e Irán.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkurdistán,krudistán,kudristán,kurddistán,kurdisstán,kurdistná,kurdisttán,kurdistánn,kurdisátn,kurditsán,kurdsitán,kuridstán,kurrdistán,ukrdistán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kurdistán — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Kurdistán"
Frequency rank: #40,918 in Spanish
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Using “Kurdistán”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-U-R-D-I-S-T-Á-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kuɾð̞isˈt̪ãn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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