Fuzhou
/ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/
"fuzhou" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Fuzhou” is uncommon English (frequency #71,518 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,518
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Fujian, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fuzhou · Fuzhou · English
Fuzhou · rank #71,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,518
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fug
Nearest frequency peer: fug (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Fuzhou”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Francisca
Francisca
28,489 corpus weight
- Frederica
Frederica
28,487 corpus weight
- fug
fug
28,484 corpus weight
- Fuzhou
Fuzhou
28,483 corpus weight
- gainfully
gainfully
28,481 corpus weight
- Gansu
Gansu
28,480 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Fuzhou” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fuzhou |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Fuzhou” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Fuzhou is uncommon English at frequency #71,518 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Fujian, China.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Fuzhou, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福州 (Fúzhōu). The correct English form is Fuzhou, spelled F-U-Z-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Fujian, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fuzhou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At the end of August Eaton anchored at a group of three small islands off the coast of Fujian to take on fresh water, as the casks had not been refilled since leaving the Cape in April. Cuninghame calls these islands the Crocodile Islands, but he says the Chinese call them the ‘Pek-kin Islands’. These are the Matsu Islands, north east of Fuzhou, one of wh…
In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福州 (Fúzhōu).
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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