China
[ˈçiːna]
The verdict
“China” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,070
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staat in Ostasien
Corpus desk
Index DE-china · China · German
China · rank #1,070 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,070
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Bewegung
Nearest frequency peer: Bewegung (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „China“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zug
Zug
98,934 corpus weight
- aktuell
aktuell
98,933 corpus weight
- Bewegung
Bewegung
98,932 corpus weight
- China
China
98,931 corpus weight
- Ehe
Ehe
98,930 corpus weight
- ehrlich
ehrlich
98,929 corpus weight
What this shows „China“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | China |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈçiːna] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „China“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around China (IPA [ˈçiːna]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,070 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for China, with forms such as "cchina", "chhina", and "chian". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CIA", "Chip", "coin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is China, spelled C-H-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Staat in Ostasien
- 2die Republik China; heute ist der Staat dieses Namens als Taiwan bekannt
- 3zusammenfassende Bezeichnung für das Gebiet von [1] und [2]
- 4das Kaiserreich China
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how China appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
China ist ein großes, ostasiatisches und weltweit das bevölkerungsreichste Land mit einer sehr weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreichenden Kultur.
Peking ist die Hauptstadt von China.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchina
- chhina
- chian
- chinna
- chnia
- cihna
- hcina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of China - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "China", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).