Ulan
"ulan" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ulan” is uncommon English (frequency #63,330 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,330
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ulan · Ulan · English
Ulan · rank #63,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,330
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH ulna
Nearest frequency peer: ulna (+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 “Ulan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- turbocharger
turbocharger
36,675 corpus weight
- Ulan
Ulan
36,671 corpus weight
- ulna
ulna
36,670 corpus weight
- unacknowled…
unacknowledged
36,669 corpus weight
- uncollected
uncollected
36,668 corpus weight
- uncompleted
uncompleted
36,667 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ulan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ulan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ulan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ulan is uncommon English at frequency #63,330 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Ulan has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Ulan, spelled U-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- 2A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ulan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Forestry, animal husbandry and sideline occupations have also grown vigorously. (Chachia) commune in Wulan County has swept away the conservative idea that it is hard to hold two sheep with one hand, has persisted in taking animal husbandry as the main occupation and combining animal husbandry with farming, has brought about tremendous development in both…
The lake is situated in Ulan county, Haixi autonomous prefecture, in western China’s Qinghai province. The blue skies reflected off the surface of the crystallised saline water have given it the name “Mirror of the Sky”, and it attracted millions of tourists in the first half of 2018.
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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