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caucasian

Cau·cas·i·anUK /kɔːˈkeɪ.ʒən/adjective, noun

caucasian is spelled C-A-U-C-A-S-I-A-N, 4 syllables: Cau·cas·i·an. The wrong spelling people search most is caucasion: about 780 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Caucasian is an adjective meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Caucasian”.

How many letters and syllables are in caucasian?

Letters9: C-A-U-C-A-S-I-A-N
Syllables4: Cau·cas·i·an
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,228th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, caucasion, about 780 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell caucasian?

Caucasian is spelled C-A-U-C-A-S-I-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for caucasian in either form.

caucasianthe right spelling5,640 searches a month
caucasiono in place of a780 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is caucasian?

Caucasian appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th 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).

How do you pronounce caucasian?

  • UK /kɔːˈkeɪ.ʒən/
  • UK /-ʃən/
  • UK /kɔːˈkeɪ.zɪ.ən/

Caucasian has 4 syllables, split Cau·cas·i·an in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Caucasian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with caucasian?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as caucasian from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʒən/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of caucasian

  • caucasians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does caucasian mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Caucasian.

adjective

as Caucasian
  1. 1

    Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.

  2. 2

    datedOf a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.

  3. 3

    Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.

noun

as Caucasian
  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.

  2. 2

    Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).

  3. 3

    datedA member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).

  4. 4

    A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.

  5. 5

    CanadaUSA white person.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Caucasian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Caucasian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcaucasien (of or relating to the Caucasus region or its…), Caucasien, Caucasienne (native or inhabitant of the Caucasus), Blanc, Blanche (member of the Caucasian racial classification)
Germankaukasisch (of or relating to the Caucasus region or its…), Kaukasier, Kaukasierin (native or inhabitant of the Caucasus), Europide, Weißer, Weiße (member of the Caucasian racial classification)
Portuguesecaucasiano (of or relating to the Caucasus region or its…), caucasiana (native or inhabitant of the Caucasus)
Spanishcaucásico, caucasiano, caucáseo (disused) (of or relating to the Caucasus region or its…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does caucasian come from?

From Caucasus (“mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘from, related to, or like’, or forming nouns with the sense ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there. Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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