Nanchang
"nanchang" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Nanchang” is uncommon English (frequency #99,611 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,611
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nanchang · Nanchang · English
Nanchang · rank #99,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,611
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH naturopathy
Nearest frequency peer: naturopathy (+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 “Nanchang”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mycological
mycological
397 corpus weight
- Nadel
Nadel
395 corpus weight
- Nakashima
Nakashima
393 corpus weight
- Nanchang
Nanchang
390 corpus weight
- naturopathy
naturopathy
389 corpus weight
- networker
networker
384 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Nanchang” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nanchang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Nanchang” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Nanchang is uncommon English at frequency #99,611 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Nanchang has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: c. 1600s, from the Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng, “Southern Prosperity”). The correct English form is Nanchang, spelled N-A-N-C-H-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China.
- 2A county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
- 3A village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nanchang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But whilſt he was beſieging this City, there came, unfortunately, a new Army of Tartars from the Imperiall City of Peking , which had order to recover this Province of Kiangſi; and therefore Kinus was forced to raiſe his Siege to oppoſe their entrance by the Northern parts of the Country; And at firſt having a vaſt Army, and uſed to the Tartarian warfare,…
The next day, being the 23. of April, we came in ſight of the firſt chief City of Nanchang, which is alſo called by ſome according to the name of the Province Kiangſi, where this is ſituated.
Etymology
c. 1600s, from the Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng, “Southern Prosperity”).
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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