Chongqing
/t͡ʃɒŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
"chongqing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chongqing” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,656
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chongqing · Chongqing · English
Chongqing · rank #35,656 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,656
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chaz
Nearest frequency peer: Chaz (-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 “Chongqing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chattering
chattering
64,347 corpus weight
- Chaz
Chaz
64,346 corpus weight
- Chongqing
Chongqing
64,345 corpus weight
- chucked
chucked
64,344 corpus weight
- chuckling
chuckling
64,343 corpus weight
- commensurate
commensurate
64,342 corpus weight
What this shows “Chongqing” 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 | Chongqing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃɒŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Chongqing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Chongqing (IPA /t͡ʃɒŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,656 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chongqing, with forms such as "cchongqing", "chhongqing", and "chnogqing". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "changing", 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 Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng). The correct English form is Chongqing, spelled C-H-O-N-G-Q-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chongqing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nanking attempted to maintain a nominal sovereignty by appointing Liu Xiang commissioner for the suppression of banditry (that is, communism) in 1933, but the province really eluded its control, and continued to do so until 1938, when the central government was driven back to Chongqing.
The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in the Chongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchongqing
- chhongqing
- chnogqing
- chognqing
- chonggqing
- chongiqng
- chongqign
- chongqingg
- chongqinng
- chongqnig
- chongqqing
- chonngqing
- chonqging
- cohngqing
- hcongqing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chongqing - 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
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).