Lijiang
"lijiang" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lijiang” is uncommon English (frequency #99,503 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,503
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A prefecture-level city northwestern Yunnan, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lijiang · Lijiang · English
Lijiang · rank #99,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,503
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH Limousin
Nearest frequency peer: Limousin (+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 “Lijiang”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Leite
Leite
505 corpus weight
- Leytonstone
Leytonstone
502 corpus weight
- Liesel
Liesel
501 corpus weight
- Lijiang
Lijiang
498 corpus weight
- Limousin
Limousin
497 corpus weight
- Litvinov
Litvinov
494 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lijiang” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lijiang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lijiang” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lijiang is uncommon English at frequency #99,503 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A prefecture-level city northwestern Yunnan, China.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lijiang in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 麗江 /丽江 (Lìjiāng). The correct English form is Lijiang, spelled L-I-J-I-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1A prefecture-level city northwestern Yunnan, China.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 麗江 /丽江 (Lìjiāng).
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 "Lijiang", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 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.