Hangzhou
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The verdict
“Hangzhou” is uncommon German (frequency #85,345 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,345
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hauptstadt der chinesischen Provinz Zhejiang
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hangzhou |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hangzhou” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hangzhou is uncommon German at frequency #85,345 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt der chinesischen Provinz Zhejiang".
Zero misspellings are on record for Hangzhou in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Hangzhou, spelled H-A-N-G-Z-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt der chinesischen Provinz Zhejiang
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 “Hangzhou”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-G-Z-H-O-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.