kiang
/kiˈɑŋ/
"kiang" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kiang” is uncommon English (frequency #96,125 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,125
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kiang · kiang · English
kiang · rank #96,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,125
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kielbasa
Nearest frequency peer: kielbasa (+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 “kiang”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kenmare
Kenmare
3,881 corpus weight
- Kerbs
Kerbs
3,880 corpus weight
- khor
khor
3,879 corpus weight
- kiang
kiang
3,876 corpus weight
- kielbasa
kielbasa
3,875 corpus weight
- Kinnaird
Kinnaird
3,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kiang” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kiang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kiˈɑŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kiang” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kiang is uncommon English at frequency #96,125 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kiˈɑŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kiang, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tibetan རྐྱང (rkyang, “wild ass”). The correct English form is kiang, spelled K-I-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
Etymology
From Tibetan རྐྱང (rkyang, “wild ass”).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).