Cayuga
/kəˈjuːɡə/
"cayuga" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cayuga” is uncommon English (frequency #53,430 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,430
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cayuga · Cayuga · English
Cayuga · rank #53,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,430
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CFPB
Nearest frequency peer: CFPB (+1 rank slots)
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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 “Cayuga”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- canna
canna
46,576 corpus weight
- capsicum
capsicum
46,575 corpus weight
- cardiopulmo…
cardiopulmonary
46,573 corpus weight
- Cayuga
Cayuga
46,571 corpus weight
- CFPB
CFPB
46,570 corpus weight
- Chaco
Chaco
46,569 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cayuga” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cayuga |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈjuːɡə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cayuga” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cayuga is uncommon English at frequency #53,430 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈjuːɡə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cayuga in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowing from Cayuga gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (“they live in the big swamp”) The correct English form is Cayuga, spelled C-A-Y-U-G-A.
Definition
- 1A member of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Etymology
Borrowing from Cayuga gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (“they live in the big swamp”)
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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