# Acadia

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/ · frequency rank #40,537

## Definitions
1. A former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.
2. Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
3. A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.

## Etymology
Two possibilities:
* from Italian Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”), a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry
* from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”)

## Easily confused with
- **Asada** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acadia-vs-asada)
- **Arabia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acadia-vs-arabia)
- **acidic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acadia-vs-acidic)
- **Arcadia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acadia-vs-arcadia)
- **acacia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acacia-vs-acadia)
- **academia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/academia-vs-acadia)

## Common misspellings (7)
`aacdia`, `acadai`, `acaddia`, `acaida`, `accadia`, `acdaia`, `caadia`

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