Qingdao
The verdict
“Qingdao” is uncommon French (frequency #89,041 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,041
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville chinoise de la province de Shandong, au nord-est de la Chine
Corpus desk
Index FR-qingdao · Qingdao · French
Qingdao · rank #89,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,041
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pêne
Nearest frequency peer: pêne (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Qingdao »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- péninsulaire
péninsulaire
10,964 corpus weight
- pétillent
pétillent
10,962 corpus weight
- pêne
pêne
10,961 corpus weight
- Qingdao
Qingdao
10,960 corpus weight
- quaresma
quaresma
10,959 corpus weight
- quidams
quidams
10,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Qingdao » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Qingdao |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Qingdao » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Qingdao is uncommon French at frequency #89,041 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville chinoise de la province de Shandong, au nord-est de la Chine".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Qingdao, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Qingdao, spelled Q-I-N-G-D-A-O.
Definition
- 1Ville chinoise de la province de Shandong, au nord-est de la Chine
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Qingdao appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qingdao était la plus petite des colonies allemandes. Le territoire occupé par les Allemands à partir de novembre 1897 regroupait 551,7 km² de terrain dont 43,6 km² d'îles. A l'intérieur d'une zone neutre de 50 km autour du territoire, c'est-à-dire à l'intérieur de la zone d'influence de l'Allemagne, la Chine n'avait pas le droit de prendre de mesures mil…
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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