Anning
/ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/
"anning" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anning” is uncommon English (frequency #94,523 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,523
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A county-level city of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anning · Anning · English
Anning · rank #94,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,523
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anticholinerg…
Nearest frequency peer: anticholinergic (+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 “Anning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- amphibia
amphibia
5,487 corpus weight
- analogical
analogical
5,486 corpus weight
- Anning
Anning
5,478 corpus weight
- anticholine…
anticholinergic
5,477 corpus weight
- artha
artha
5,469 corpus weight
- artificiali…
artificiality
5,468 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Anning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Anning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Anning is uncommon English at frequency #94,523 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
From Pi-chi Kuan to An-ning chou 安甯州 (now An-ning hsien) is 50 li. An-ning is a walled city lying in a valley at an altitude of 6,000 feet. In ancient days it was the T’ang-lang-ch’uan 螳螂川 (Mantis stream) of the Tien Kingdom. A small trail here branches off to the town of Wu-ting 武定, three stages to the north of K’un-ming and a distance of 210 li from An-…
CNPC’s refinery comprises one of the auxiliary infrastructures of Sino-Burma crude oil pipelines, which just entered the Industrial Park of Anning City, Yunnan Province in 2013. The pipeline stands at the windward of the “City of Eternal Spring” and upstream side of the “City of Water Shortage,” Kunming.
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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