# coon vs cowan

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### cowan
*noun · IPA /ˈkəʊən/ · frequency rank #22,940*
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.

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