CONUS
"conus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CONUS” is uncommon English (frequency #64,284 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,284
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acronym of the contiguous United States, the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-conus · CONUS · English
CONUS · rank #64,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,284
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cooties
Nearest frequency peer: cooties (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “CONUS”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- consistory
consistory
35,721 corpus weight
- constitutio…
constitutionalism
35,720 corpus weight
- constrict
constrict
35,719 corpus weight
- CONUS
CONUS
35,717 corpus weight
- cooties
cooties
35,716 corpus weight
- copland
copland
35,715 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “CONUS” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CONUS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “CONUS” in English
Rare enough to double-check
CONUS is uncommon English at frequency #64,284 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acronym of the contiguous United States, the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia.".
CONUS has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is CONUS, spelled C-O-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Acronym of the contiguous United States, the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CONUS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] and those who reside in the CONUS, Alaska, or Hawaii are authorized to travel to oversea areas and return on ASIF missions for humanitarian reasons upon approval of the Chief of Staff[…]
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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