Anning
/ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/
"anning" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anning” is an uncommon English word, ranked #94,523 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #94,523
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A county-level city of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Anning” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Anning is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #94,523 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Anning, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Mandarin 安寧 /安宁 (Ānníng). The correct English form is Anning, spelled A-N-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A county-level city of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
- 2A river in Sichuan, China.
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 安寧 /安宁 (Ānníng).
Synonyms
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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Using “Anning”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-N-I-N-G - 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.