Ulan

name

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"ulan" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Ulan” is uncommon English (frequency #63,330 among 23,789 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,330
frequency rank, English
23,789
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Key facts for Ulan
PropertyValue
HeadwordUlan
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#63,330
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Ulan” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Ulan lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Ulan is uncommon English at frequency #63,330 among 23,789 “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

  1. 1
    A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. 2
    A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ulan"?
"Ulan" is spelled U-L-A-N.
What does "Ulan" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ulan" means: A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
What language does "Ulan" come from?
"Ulan" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Ulan”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is U-L-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list