Kursk

/[ˈkuɾsk]/ name

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.

Key facts for Kursk
PropertyValue
HeadwordKursk
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[ˈkuɾsk]
Letters5
Frequency rank#63,940
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Kursk” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Kursk lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Ciudad de Rusia, junto al río Semj, 460 km al SW de Moscú. Capital de la provincia homónima.

Frequency rank: #63,940 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kursk"?
"Kursk" is spelled K-U-R-S-K. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkuɾsk].
What does "Kursk" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kursk" means: Ciudad de Rusia, junto al río Semj, 460 km al SW de Moscú. Capital de la provincia homónima.
How do you pronounce "Kursk"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kursk" is [ˈkuɾsk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kursk" come from?
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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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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.