Chitral
"chitral" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chitral” is uncommon English (frequency #96,860 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,860
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A princely state in alliance with British India until 1947, then a princely state of Pakistan until 1969. The area of the state now forms the Chitral District of the Malakand Division, Khyber-Pakht...
Corpus desk
Index EN-chitral · Chitral · English
Chitral · rank #96,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,860
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chiricahua
Nearest frequency peer: Chiricahua (-1 rank slots)
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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 “Chitral”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chela
chela
3,147 corpus weight
- cheyney
cheyney
3,146 corpus weight
- Chiricahua
Chiricahua
3,142 corpus weight
- Chitral
Chitral
3,141 corpus weight
- clavier
clavier
3,137 corpus weight
- claymation
claymation
3,136 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Chitral” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chitral |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Chitral” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Chitral is uncommon English at frequency #96,860 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chitral, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hindustani چترال / चित्राल (citrāl)), from Khowar چھترار (chitrār, “field”), from Sanskrit क्षेत्र (kṣetra). The correct English form is Chitral, spelled C-H-I-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1A princely state in alliance with British India until 1947, then a princely state of Pakistan until 1969. The area of the state now forms the Chitral District of the Malakand Division, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
- 2The capital of the Chitral District, situated on the western bank of the Chitral River, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It also served as the capital of the princely state of Chitral until 1969.
- 3The largest district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Etymology
From Hindustani چترال / चित्राल (citrāl)), from Khowar چھترار (chitrār, “field”), from Sanskrit क्षेत्र (kṣetra).
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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