Kursk
The verdict
“Kursk” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #63,940 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #63,940
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ciudad de Rusia, junto al río Semj, 460 km al SW de Moscú. Capital de la provincia homónima.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kursk |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuɾsk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kursk” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Kursk is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuɾsk]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,940 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 Rusia, junto al río Semj, 460 km al SW de Moscú. Capital de la provincia homónima.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kursk in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 Kursk, spelled K-U-R-S-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Rusia, junto al río Semj, 460 km al SW de Moscú. Capital de la provincia homónima.
Frequency rank: #63,940 in Spanish
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Using “Kursk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-U-R-S-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkuɾsk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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