Chinese
[çiˈneːzə]
The verdict
“Chinese” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,665
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staatsbürger von China
Corpus desk
Index DE-chinese · Chinese · German
Chinese · rank #16,665 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,665
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH casa
Nearest frequency peer: casa (-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 „Chinese“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Campingplatz
Campingplatz
83,339 corpus weight
- Cape
Cape
83,338 corpus weight
- casa
casa
83,337 corpus weight
- Chinese
Chinese
83,336 corpus weight
- Chirurg
Chirurg
83,335 corpus weight
- Cocktails
Cocktails
83,334 corpus weight
What this shows „Chinese“ 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 | Chinese |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [çiˈneːzə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Chinese“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Chinese (IPA [çiˈneːzə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,665 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chinese, with forms such as "cchinese", "chhinese", and "chiense". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Chinesen", "Chinesin", "Chinas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Chinese, spelled C-H-I-N-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Staatsbürger von China
- 2Mensch, dessen Vorfahren aus China kommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chinese appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Chinese und ein Amerikaner sitzen in einem Auto.
„Die großen Reiche Asiens – die Osmanen, Perser, Moguln und Chinesen – bekamen sehr bald mit, dass die Europäer einen neuen Kontinent entdeckt hatten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchinese
- chhinese
- chiense
- chinees
- chinesse
- chinnese
- chinsee
- chniese
- cihnese
- hcinese
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chinese - 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 "Chinese", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).