Lanzhou
"lanzhou" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lanzhou” is uncommon English (frequency #77,849 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,849
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Gansu, in northwestern China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lanzhou · Lanzhou · English
Lanzhou · rank #77,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,849
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lansdale
Nearest frequency peer: Lansdale (-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 “Lanzhou”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Landover
Landover
22,155 corpus weight
- laneway
laneway
22,154 corpus weight
- Lansdale
Lansdale
22,153 corpus weight
- Lanzhou
Lanzhou
22,152 corpus weight
- Larnaca
Larnaca
22,150 corpus weight
- lates
lates
22,149 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lanzhou” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lanzhou |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lanzhou” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lanzhou is uncommon English at frequency #77,849 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Gansu, in northwestern China.".
Lanzhou doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu). The correct English form is Lanzhou, spelled L-A-N-Z-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Gansu, in northwestern China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lanzhou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.
In northwestern Gansu province, where nine local confirmed cases have been reported in the past week, primary and high schools in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, as well as in one county in Jiuquan city, have suspended offline classes.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).