Luang Prabang
[ˈlwãŋ pɾaˈβ̞ãŋ]
The verdict
“Luang Prabang” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — ciudad de Laos en la que antaño tenían su residencia los reyes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luang Prabang |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈlwãŋ pɾaˈβ̞ãŋ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Luang Prabang” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Luang Prabang is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlwãŋ pɾaˈβ̞ãŋ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ciudad de Laos en la que antaño tenían su residencia los reyes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Luang Prabang 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 Luang Prabang, spelled L-U-A-N-G- -P-R-A-B-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ciudad de Laos en la que antaño tenían su residencia los reyes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Luang Prabang”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-U-A-N-G- -P-R-A-B-A-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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