peking-duck
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "peking-duck", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "peking-duck" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "peking-duck" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“Peking duck” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Peking duck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌpiːkɪŋ ˈdʌk/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Peking duck is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌpiːkɪŋ ˈdʌk/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Peking duck in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking + duck. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Peking duck, spelled P-E-K-I-N-G- -D-U-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
Etymology
Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking + duck.
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-K-I-N-G- -D-U-C-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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