Xiamen
/ʃjɑːˈmɛn/
"xiamen" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Xiamen” is uncommon English (frequency #57,183 among 54 “X” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,183
- frequency rank, English
- 54
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-xiamen · Xiamen · English
Xiamen · rank #57,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,183
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 54
- PHOTO-FINISH Yamazaki
Nearest frequency peer: Yamazaki (+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 “Xiamen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- windswept
windswept
42,825 corpus weight
- wod
wod
42,822 corpus weight
- Xiamen
Xiamen
42,818 corpus weight
- Yamazaki
Yamazaki
42,817 corpus weight
- Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta
42,816 corpus weight
- Zoltan
Zoltan
42,812 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Xiamen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Xiamen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ʃjɑːˈmɛn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Xiamen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Xiamen is uncommon English at frequency #57,183 among 54 “X” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ʃjɑːˈmɛn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.".
Xiamen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廈門 /厦門 /厦门 (Xiàmén). The correct English form is Xiamen, spelled X-I-A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Xiamen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting apart and becoming irrelevant.
For the past month Beijing has routinely sent drones over the Kinmen islands, which are about six miles from the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. Recently China started to release high-resolution, close-range drone video of military facilities on Kinmen.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廈門 /厦門 /厦门 (Xiàmén).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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