# coon vs Cooney

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### coon
*noun · IPA /kun/ · frequency rank #26,380*
A black person.

### Cooney
*name · frequency rank #40,186*
A surname from Irish.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coon-vs-cooney