Chengdu
/t͡ʃɛŋ.du/
"chengdu" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chengdu” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,173
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chengdu · Chengdu · English
Chengdu · rank #33,173 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,173
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH checkered
Nearest frequency peer: checkered (-2 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 “Chengdu”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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66,831 corpus weight
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checkered
66,830 corpus weight
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Chengdu
66,828 corpus weight
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cilantro
66,826 corpus weight
- circumcised
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66,825 corpus weight
What this shows “Chengdu” 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 | Chengdu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃɛŋ.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Chengdu”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Chengdu (IPA /t͡ʃɛŋ.du/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,173 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chengdu, with forms such as "cchengdu", "cehngdu", and "chegndu". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Cheng", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 成都 (Chéngdū), supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County. The correct English form is Chengdu, spelled C-H-E-N-G-D-U.
Definition
- 1A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chengdu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As the United States lashed out against the “new tyranny” of China, Beijing on Friday ordered the closure of the American consulate in Chengdu, a retaliatory move that threatens to drive the two powers into an even deeper divide. Beijing blamed the Trump administration for the deterioration in relations, calling its own action justified after Washington t…
Millions were stuck at home in China's Chengdu on Friday after a handful of Covid-19 cases brought the megacity to a standstill.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 成都 (Chéngdū), supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchengdu
- cehngdu
- chegndu
- chendgu
- chengddu
- chenggdu
- chengud
- chenngdu
- chhengdu
- chnegdu
- hcengdu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chengdu - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).