Gansu
"gansu" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gansu” is uncommon English (frequency #71,521 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,521
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gansu · Gansu · English
Gansu · rank #71,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,521
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gainfully
Nearest frequency peer: gainfully (-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 “Gansu”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fug
fug
28,484 corpus weight
- Fuzhou
Fuzhou
28,483 corpus weight
- gainfully
gainfully
28,481 corpus weight
- Gansu
Gansu
28,480 corpus weight
- gasser
gasser
28,477 corpus weight
- gaydar
gaydar
28,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gansu” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gansu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gansu” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gansu is uncommon English at frequency #71,521 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Gansu, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 甘肅 /甘肃 (Gānsù). The correct English form is Gansu, spelled G-A-N-S-U.
Definition
- 1A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gansu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is Lanzhou, the old Silk Road outpost that has matured into a metropolis of almost 4 million as the capital of Gansu province in China’s still-poor northwest. And as your lungs can attest, it is one of the most polluted cities in the country.
A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China's Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents. Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyptic scene as a billowing cloud of yellow dust smothered Gansu's Linze county on Sunday.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘肅 /甘肃 (Gānsù).
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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