Cajun
/ˈkeɪ.d͡ʒən/
"cajun" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cajun” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,203
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of the ethnic group descending from Acadia, primarily French-speaking Catholic and living in Southern Louisiana and Maine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cajun · Cajun · English
Cajun · rank #29,203 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,203
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Calvary
Nearest frequency peer: Calvary (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Cajun”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Brixton
Brixton
70,802 corpus weight
- bronco
bronco
70,801 corpus weight
- Cajun
Cajun
70,798 corpus weight
- Calvary
Calvary
70,797 corpus weight
- camaraderie
camaraderie
70,796 corpus weight
- Cascades
Cascades
70,794 corpus weight
What this shows “Cajun” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cajun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪ.d͡ʒən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Cajun”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Cajun (IPA /ˈkeɪ.d͡ʒən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,203 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cajun, with forms such as "acjun", "cajjun", and "cajnu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "can", "Chun", "canon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien (itself an aphetic form of Acadien (“Acadian”)), reflecting the palatalization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect. The correct English form is Cajun, spelled C-A-J-U-N.
Definition
- 1A member of the ethnic group descending from Acadia, primarily French-speaking Catholic and living in Southern Louisiana and Maine.
- 2Any uneducated, poor Francophone in French Louisiana.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cajun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Damn Cajuns! They're all a bunch of lazy coonasses!
Etymology
An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien (itself an aphetic form of Acadien (“Acadian”)), reflecting the palatalization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acjun
- cajjun
- cajnu
- cajunn
- caujn
- ccajun
- cjaun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cajun - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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