Anhui
/ɑːnˈhweɪ/
"anhui" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anhui” is uncommon English (frequency #54,616 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,616
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A province in eastern China. Capital: Hefei.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anhui · Anhui · English
Anhui · rank #54,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,616
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH antenatal
Nearest frequency peer: antenatal (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Anhui”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anatole
Anatole
45,389 corpus weight
- Anatolian
Anatolian
45,388 corpus weight
- angiotensin
angiotensin
45,387 corpus weight
- Anhui
Anhui
45,385 corpus weight
- antenatal
antenatal
45,384 corpus weight
- aquaria
aquaria
45,382 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Anhui” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anhui |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɑːnˈhweɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Anhui” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Anhui is uncommon English at frequency #54,616 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɑːnˈhweɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A province in eastern China. Capital: Hefei.".
Anhui doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī). The correct English form is Anhui, spelled A-N-H-U-I.
Definition
- 1A province in eastern China. Capital: Hefei.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anhui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He found nothing but disorder at the Taeping capital, and no troops with which he could venture to assume the offensive against the powerful army, in numbers at all events, that the two Tsengs had drawn round Nanking. In this position his troubles were increased by the suspicion of Tien Wang, who deprived him of all his honours, and banished him to the pr…
Some idea of the extent of the calamity, which is due to the excessive rains of the summer, resulting in the complete failure of the crops and the destruction of many homesteads, may be gathered from the fact that the committee with probably make an appeal for at least £250,000. Help will be solicited not only from Shanghai, but from Great Britain, Americ…
Etymology
From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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