injun
/ˈɪn.dʒən/
"injun" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“injun” is uncommon English (frequency #87,401 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,401
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Native American.
Corpus desk
Index EN-injun · injun · English
injun · rank #87,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,401
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inhabitable
Nearest frequency peer: inhabitable (-2 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 “injun”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- improver
improver
12,606 corpus weight
- inhabitable
inhabitable
12,602 corpus weight
- injun
injun
12,600 corpus weight
- insincerity
insincerity
12,598 corpus weight
- inundate
inundate
12,595 corpus weight
- Invercargill
Invercargill
12,594 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “injun” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | injun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɪn.dʒən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “injun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
injun is uncommon English at frequency #87,401 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɪn.dʒən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Native American.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for injun, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Indian. Compare Cajun. First attested in the 1805–15. The correct English form is injun, spelled I-N-J-U-N.
Definition
- 1A Native American.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how injun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!
You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill
Etymology
Variant of Indian. Compare Cajun. First attested in the 1805–15.
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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