China
\ˈɕiː.naː\
The verdict
“China” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,531
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chine, la République populaire de Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-china · China · French
China · rank #12,531 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,531
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaux
Nearest frequency peer: chaux (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « China »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- C1
C1
87,473 corpus weight
- chantent
chantent
87,472 corpus weight
- chaux
chaux
87,471 corpus weight
- China
China
87,470 corpus weight
- circulent
circulent
87,469 corpus weight
- class
class
87,468 corpus weight
What this shows « China » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | China |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈɕiː.naː\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « China »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around China (IPA \ˈɕiː.naː\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,531 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for China, with forms such as "cchina", "chhina", and "chian". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cia", "cinq", "coin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is China, spelled C-H-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Chine, la République populaire de Chine.
- 2Chine, la République de Chine.
- 3Chine impériale, l'Empire du Milieu.
- 4L'espace culturel chinois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how China appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
China ist ein großes, ostasiatisches und weltweit das bevölkerungsreichste Land mit einer sehr weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreichenden Kultur.
Was tut Chinas Parteiführung, wenn sie eine anhaltende Wirtschaftskrise nicht in den Griff bekommt? Zum Beispiel das: Sie lässt Ökonomen verschwinden, die den Ernst der Lage benennen.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchina
- chhina
- chian
- chinna
- chnia
- cihna
- hcina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of China - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).