Yulin
"yulin" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yulin” is uncommon English (frequency #77,358 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,358
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yulin · Yulin · English
Yulin · rank #77,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,358
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yukiko
Nearest frequency peer: Yukiko (-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 “Yulin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wooley
Wooley
22,652 corpus weight
- Yayoi
Yayoi
22,647 corpus weight
- Yukiko
Yukiko
22,644 corpus weight
- Yulin
Yulin
22,643 corpus weight
- zeolite
zeolite
22,641 corpus weight
- zep
zep
22,640 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Yulin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yulin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Yulin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Yulin is uncommon English at frequency #77,358 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Yulin, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 玉林 (Yùlín). The correct English form is Yulin, spelled Y-U-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yulin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gen. Hsiang Han-pin is reported to have occupied Sunhu on Feb. 17 and captured 3,000 prisoners while two battalions of the Ironsides, which had secretly joined the Kwangsi rebels were captured and disarmed by Gen. Tsai Tung-kai's forces west of Watlam.
Thousands of dogs are slaughtered and served in restaurants in Yulin, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, for the festival, which is set to begin on June 21. Its proponents defend the practice as an expression of cultural heritage and argue that eating dogs is no different from eating cows or turkeys.
Etymology
From Mandarin 玉林 (Yùlín).
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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