Guilin
"guilin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guilin” is uncommon English (frequency #86,327 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,327
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guilin · Guilin · English
Guilin · rank #86,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,327
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gujranwala
Nearest frequency peer: Gujranwala (+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 “Guilin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grenadine
grenadine
13,677 corpus weight
- grippy
grippy
13,676 corpus weight
- Guilin
Guilin
13,674 corpus weight
- Gujranwala
Gujranwala
13,673 corpus weight
- Haeckel
Haeckel
13,668 corpus weight
- halbert
halbert
13,667 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Guilin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guilin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Guilin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Guilin is uncommon English at frequency #86,327 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in the Guangxi autonomous region, China.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Guilin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桂林 (Guìlín, “Laurel Forest”), with particular reference to the area's Cinnamomum cassia. The correct English form is Guilin, spelled G-U-I-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1A city in the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Guilin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In early May, advance elements of Li Zong-ren’s Seventh Army of the Northern Expeditionary Force advanced from Guilin, securing Tang’s flanks and boosting his soldiers’ morale.
In 1945, Tom was sent into remote Kueilin, Kwangsi Province where primitive conditions necessitated bathing in a small round bamboo tub just big enough to hold him.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桂林 (Guìlín, “Laurel Forest”), with particular reference to the area's Cinnamomum cassia.
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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