Hongkong
"hongkong" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hongkong” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,111
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dated spelling of Hong Kong: a city, island and special administrative region in southeastern China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hongkong · Hongkong · English
Hongkong · rank #34,111 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,111
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homeopathy
Nearest frequency peer: homeopathy (-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 “Hongkong”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hillbilly
hillbilly
65,895 corpus weight
- Hollister
Hollister
65,892 corpus weight
- homeopathy
homeopathy
65,891 corpus weight
- Hongkong
Hongkong
65,890 corpus weight
- Huckabee
Huckabee
65,887 corpus weight
- hustling
hustling
65,885 corpus weight
What this shows “Hongkong” 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 | Hongkong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Hongkong”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Hongkong, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,111 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dated spelling of Hong Kong: a city, island and special administrative region in southeastern China.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hongkong, with forms such as "hhongkong", "hnogkong", and "hognkong". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "honking", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Hongkong, spelled H-O-N-G-K-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Dated spelling of Hong Kong: a city, island and special administrative region in southeastern China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hongkong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At 4 a.m. we found ourselves close under the light on the eastern end of the island of Hongkong. We were surrounded by islands, and the morning was dark and thick; so we waited till 5.30, and then steamed on through the Kowloon passage up to the city of Victoria, as it is really named, though it is generally called Hongkong.
In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhongkong
- hnogkong
- hognkong
- honggkong
- hongkkong
- hongknog
- hongkogn
- hongkongg
- hongkonng
- hongokng
- honkgong
- honngkong
- ohngkong
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hongkong - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hongkong", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).