cun
/kʌn/
"cun" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cun” is uncommon English (frequency #91,395 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,395
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To know.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cun · cun · English
cun · rank #91,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,395
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CSUN
Nearest frequency peer: CSUN (-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 “cun”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- criminalisa…
criminalisation
8,610 corpus weight
- CSUN
CSUN
8,607 corpus weight
- cun
cun
8,606 corpus weight
- cytogenetic
cytogenetic
8,604 corpus weight
- cytoskeletal
cytoskeletal
8,603 corpus weight
- darkling
darkling
8,600 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cun” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kʌn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cun is uncommon English at frequency #91,395 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kʌn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To know.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cun in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cunnen, connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how (to)”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to know”). Doublet of con. The correct English form is cun, spelled C-U-N.
Definition
- 1To know.
Etymology
From Middle English cunnen, connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how (to)”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to know”). Doublet of con.
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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