Chita
/t͡ʃɪˈtɑː/
"chita" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chita” is uncommon English (frequency #94,677 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,677
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Siberia, Russia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chita |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃɪˈtɑː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chita” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chita is uncommon English at frequency #94,677 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /t͡ʃɪˈtɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Siberia, Russia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Chita in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Russian Чита́ (Čitá). The correct English form is Chita, spelled C-H-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1A city, the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Siberia, Russia.
Etymology
From Russian Чита́ (Čitá).
This word in other languages
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 “Chita”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-I-T-A - 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.