Hsiang
"hsiang" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hsiang” is uncommon English (frequency #71,575 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,575
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of Xiang.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hsiang · Hsiang · English
Hsiang · rank #71,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,575
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Howrah
Nearest frequency peer: Howrah (-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 “Hsiang”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- holies
holies
28,430 corpus weight
- hooky
hooky
28,428 corpus weight
- Howrah
Howrah
28,427 corpus weight
- Hsiang
Hsiang
28,426 corpus weight
- Husayn
Husayn
28,424 corpus weight
- IANA
IANA
28,421 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hsiang” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hsiang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Hsiang” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hsiang is uncommon English at frequency #71,575 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of Xiang.".
Hsiang doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiang¹. The correct English form is Hsiang, spelled H-S-I-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of Xiang.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hsiang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Hsiang dialect is spoken principally in Hunan and resembles to some extent the southwestern Mandarin; in this group the number of tones varíes from six to seven.
If we adopt the threefold division of Northern Chinese, the form commonly known as ‘Southern Mandarin’ occupies the southern part of Kiangsu, Anhwei south of the river Hwei and north by the Wu boundary, the south-east corner of Hupeh, and all Kiangsi not occupied by Wu or Hakka dialects. The western form covers the southern part of Hupeh, the whole of Hun…
Etymology
From Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiang¹.
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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