coun
"coun" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coun” is uncommon English (frequency #50,443 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,443
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of council.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coun · coun · English
coun · rank #50,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,443
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cortisone
Nearest frequency peer: cortisone (-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 “coun”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- coq
coq
49,562 corpus weight
- coronet
coronet
49,561 corpus weight
- cortisone
cortisone
49,559 corpus weight
- coun
coun
49,558 corpus weight
- craggy
craggy
49,555 corpus weight
- creatinine
creatinine
49,554 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coun” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coun is uncommon English at frequency #50,443 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbreviation of council.".
Zero misspellings are on record for coun in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is coun, spelled C-O-U-N.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of council.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entered service of Leg. Coun. of U. C. May, 1822. Appointed Clerk Asst. to Leg. Coun. in 1841—Master in Chancery in 1851.
Ind., Goshen—Elkhart Co. Coun. approved road building program requiring $347,200 bond issue for hard surf. roads.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).