Cancún
/kænˈkuːn/
"cancun" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cancún” is uncommon English (frequency #87,115 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,115
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A resort city in Quintana Roo, in southeastern Mexico, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cancun · Cancún · English
Cancún · rank #87,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,115
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH calorimetry
Nearest frequency peer: calorimetry (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Cancún”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bytecode
bytecode
12,891 corpus weight
- calorimetry
calorimetry
12,888 corpus weight
- Cancún
Cancún
12,886 corpus weight
- carboxylate
carboxylate
12,884 corpus weight
- Carrell
Carrell
12,883 corpus weight
- catacomb
catacomb
12,880 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cancún” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cancún |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kænˈkuːn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cancún” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cancún is uncommon English at frequency #87,115 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kænˈkuːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A resort city in Quintana Roo, in southeastern Mexico, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.".
Cancún doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Cancún, from Yucatec Maya kaan (“snake”) + kun (“overfilled”). The correct English form is Cancún, spelled C-A-N-C-Ú-N.
Definition
- 1A resort city in Quintana Roo, in southeastern Mexico, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Cancún, from Yucatec Maya kaan (“snake”) + kun (“overfilled”).
This word in other languages
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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