Dalian
/dɑːliˈæn/
"dalian" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dalian” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,198
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A major subprovincial city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dalian · Dalian · English
Dalian · rank #40,198 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,198
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Danbury
Nearest frequency peer: Danbury (+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 “Dalian”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cryptograph…
cryptographic
59,807 corpus weight
- CSM
CSM
59,806 corpus weight
- Dalian
Dalian
59,803 corpus weight
- Danbury
Danbury
59,802 corpus weight
- Dartmoor
Dartmoor
59,801 corpus weight
- Darwinism
Darwinism
59,800 corpus weight
What this shows “Dalian” 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 | Dalian |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /dɑːliˈæn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Dalian”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Dalian (IPA /dɑːliˈæn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,198 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A major subprovincial city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dalian, with forms such as "adlian", "dailan", and "dalain". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Dylan", "Dolan", "Delia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大連 /大连 (Dàlián), ultimately from Russian Да́льний (Dálʹnij, literally “distant”). Related to the name of the bay called after a village located on the opposite side of the bay. The correct English form is Dalian, spelled D-A-L-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1A major subprovincial city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dalian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In a rare interview, Ms. Sun spoke with pride about her blue collar past. “I come from a worker’s background, and I have a very deep and special feeling for organized labor,” she told the Dalian Daily. As party secretary of Dalian, a city in northeastern China, Ms. Sun honed her political acumen.
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大連 /大连 (Dàlián), ultimately from Russian Да́льний (Dálʹnij, literally “distant”). Related to the name of the bay called after a village located on the opposite side of the bay.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adlian
- dailan
- dalain
- daliann
- dalina
- dallian
- ddalian
- dlaian
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dalian - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).