Beijing
/beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
"beijing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Beijing” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,858
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beijing · Beijing · English
Beijing · rank #5,858 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,858
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH banner
Nearest frequency peer: banner (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Beijing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- athletic
athletic
94,146 corpus weight
- authorized
authorized
94,145 corpus weight
- banner
banner
94,144 corpus weight
- Beijing
Beijing
94,143 corpus weight
- blew
blew
94,142 corpus weight
- blocking
blocking
94,141 corpus weight
What this shows “Beijing” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Beijing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Beijing (IPA /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,858 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beijing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Liu Lao-zheng sidled right up to Zao-hua and said: “That’s right. I went to Beijing [Peking] to visit with my daughter. Zao-hua, I hear that you have become the workpoint recorder.”[…] Liu Lao-zheng pulled out an abacus from a sack he was carrying over his shoulder. “Huala, huala,” he shook it several times and said: “I bought one in Beijing. I’ll lend it…
Backhoes moved house by house, laying waste to a community called Xitai that was built in a plush green valley on the northern edge of Beijing, only a short walk from the Great Wall 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).