Akan
/ˈækæn/noun, adjective
Akan is a noun meaning “A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-K-A-N, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Akan mean?
noun
- 1
A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the Akan people.
- 2
Of or pertaining to the Akan language and other related languages.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Akan?
- /ˈækæn/
- /əˈkɑːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Akan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Akan?
Akan appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,108th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).