Pekin
"pekin" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pekin” is uncommon English (frequency #64,605 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,605
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of Peking.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pekin · Pekin · English
Pekin · rank #64,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,605
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Percocet
Nearest frequency peer: Percocet (+2 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 “Pekin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parathyroid
parathyroid
35,403 corpus weight
- partie
partie
35,402 corpus weight
- Patiala
Patiala
35,401 corpus weight
- Pekin
Pekin
35,396 corpus weight
- Percocet
Percocet
35,394 corpus weight
- pharynx
pharynx
35,392 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pekin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pekin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pekin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pekin is uncommon English at frequency #64,605 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Pekin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, Dutch Peking, French Pékin, German Peking, Italian Pechino. The correct English form is Pekin, spelled P-E-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of Peking.
- 2A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
- 3A hamlet in New York.
- 4A city and village in North Dakota.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pekin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The same country furnishes me with another instance of extended inland commerce. It is found worth while to keep up a mercantile communication between Pekin in China, and Petersburgh. And none of these instances of inland commerce exceed those of the courses by which, at several periods, the whole of the trade of the East was carried on.
His father, Tchoung-Heou, was living at Pekin when he was born ; and he was six years old when the former settled at Shang-hai.
Etymology
Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, Dutch Peking, French Pékin, German Peking, Italian Pechino.
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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