Chittagong
/ˈtʃɪtəɡɒŋ/
"chittagong" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chittagong” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,252
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in Bangladesh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chittagong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈtʃɪtəɡɒŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chittagong” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Chittagong (IPA /ˈtʃɪtəɡɒŋ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,252 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chittagong, with forms such as "cchittagong", "chhittagong", and "chitagong". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Chittagong, spelled C-H-I-T-T-A-G-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1A city in Bangladesh.
- 2One of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
- 3One of the eleven districts in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchittagong
- chhittagong
- chitagong
- chitatgong
- chittaggong
- chittagnog
- chittagogn
- chittagongg
- chittagonng
- chittaogng
- chittgaong
- chtitagong
- cihttagong
- hcittagong
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chittagong - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Chittagong”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-I-T-T-A-G-O-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈtʃɪtəɡɒŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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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.