# Coburn

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #33,579

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A census-designated place in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.

## Etymology
Variant of Cockburn.

## Easily confused with
- **corn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coburn-vs-corn)
- **cour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coburn-vs-cour)
- **court** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coburn-vs-court)
- **cours** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coburn-vs-cours)
- **column** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coburn-vs-column)
- **Cockburn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coburn-vs-cockburn)
- **cobra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cobra-vs-coburn)
- **churn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/churn-vs-coburn)
- **Cobain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cobain-vs-coburn)

## Common misspellings (9)
`cbourn`, `ccoburn`, `cobburn`, `cobrun`, `cobunr`, `coburnn`, `coburrn`, `coubrn`, `ocburn`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/coburn