Chengdu
[t͡ʃəŋdu]
The verdict
“Chengdu” is uncommon German (frequency #87,551 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,551
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hauptstadt der Provinz Sichuan in der Volksrepublik China
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chengdu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃəŋdu] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chengdu” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chengdu is uncommon German at frequency #87,551 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [t͡ʃəŋdu]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt der Provinz Sichuan in der Volksrepublik China".
Chengdu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Chengdu, spelled C-H-E-N-G-D-U.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt der Provinz Sichuan in der Volksrepublik China
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Chengdu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-E-N-G-D-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.