Heilongjiang
"heilongjiang" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Heilongjiang” is uncommon English (frequency #77,760 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,760
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-heilongjiang · Heilongjiang · English
Heilongjiang · rank #77,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,760
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH heliocentric
Nearest frequency peer: heliocentric (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Heilongjiang”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hegemon
hegemon
22,244 corpus weight
- Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang
22,241 corpus weight
- heliocentric
heliocentric
22,240 corpus weight
- HEPA
HEPA
22,238 corpus weight
- hexes
hexes
22,237 corpus weight
- hierarchica…
hierarchically
22,236 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Heilongjiang” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heilongjiang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #77,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Heilongjiang” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Heilongjiang is uncommon English at frequency #77,760 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Heilongjiang, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng). The correct English form is Heilongjiang, spelled H-E-I-L-O-N-G-J-I-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.
- 2Alternative form of Heilong Jiang, the Amur River: a major river in the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Heilongjiang", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.