Christina
/kɹɪsˈtiːnə/
"christina" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Christina” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,298. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,298
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-christina · Christina · English
Christina · rank #9,298 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,298
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chickens
Nearest frequency peer: chickens (-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 “Christina”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- certainty
certainty
90,706 corpus weight
- cheeks
cheeks
90,705 corpus weight
- chickens
chickens
90,704 corpus weight
- Christina
Christina
90,703 corpus weight
- citation
citation
90,702 corpus weight
- clues
clues
90,701 corpus weight
What this shows “Christina” 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 | Christina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kɹɪsˈtiːnə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Christina”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Christina (IPA /kɹɪsˈtiːnə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,298 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Ancient Greek.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Christina, with forms such as "cchristina", "chhristina", and "chirstina". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Cristina", "Christine", "Christa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Name of an early martyr, shortened from Latin Chrīstiāna (“Christian (woman)”). Doublet of Kirsten. The correct English form is Christina, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Christina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For never yet that maiden's woes To check our social pleasure rose, Her joy she shares, her grief's her own, CHRISTINA CHRISTIAN weeps alone.
Her name "Christina" was derived from one of the Bonaparte family, Lady Dudley Stuart
Etymology
Name of an early martyr, shortened from Latin Chrīstiāna (“Christian (woman)”). Doublet of Kirsten.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchristina
- chhristina
- chirstina
- chrisitna
- chrisstina
- christinna
- christnia
- christtina
- chritsina
- chrristina
- chrsitina
- crhistina
- hcristina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Christina - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Christina", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).