Beijing
/beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
"beijing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Beijing” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #5,858 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #5,858
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
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 | Beijing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Beijing” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Beijing is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,858 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beijing, with forms such as "bbeijing", "beiijng", and "beijign". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "being", "biting", "biking", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: c. 1958, borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng, romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 北京 (Běijīng, literally “northern capital”). The name Beijing was to distinguish the city from Nanjing to the south, and first applied informally during the reign of the Yongle… The correct English form is Beijing, spelled B-E-I-J-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
- 2The government of the People's Republic of China.
Etymology
c. 1958, borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng, romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 北京 (Běijīng, literally “northern capital”). The name Beijing was to distinguish the city from Nanjing to the south, and first applied informally during the reign of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who preferred to rule from Beijing but was obliged to treat Nanjing as a secondary capital by the dynastic injunctions of his father the Hongwu Emperor. The name continued a practice of several preceding dynasties—especially those of nomadic conquerers from the north such as the Jin and Liao—of maintaining a number of separate capitals designated by their cardinal directions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbeijing,beiijng,beijign,beijingg,beijinng,beijjing,beijnig,bejiing,biejing,ebijing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beijing - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Beijing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-I-J-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “being” - see the side-by-side comparison. Beijing vs being
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.