Zong
/tsʊŋ/
"zong" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zong” is uncommon English (frequency #70,419 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,419
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Chinese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zong · Zong · English
Zong · rank #70,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,419
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH zina
Nearest frequency peer: zina (-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 “Zong”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wingless
wingless
29,595 corpus weight
- Witham
Witham
29,593 corpus weight
- Wotton
Wotton
29,590 corpus weight
- zina
zina
29,583 corpus weight
- Zong
Zong
29,582 corpus weight
- Zoroastrian…
Zoroastrianism
29,581 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Zong” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tsʊŋ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Zong” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Zong is uncommon English at frequency #70,419 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tsʊŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Chinese.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Zong in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Chinese 宗 (Zōng). The correct English form is Zong, spelled Z-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1A surname from Chinese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Chinese 宗 (Zōng).
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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