khon
"khon" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“khon” is uncommon English (frequency #79,670 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,670
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
Corpus desk
Index EN-khon · khon · English
khon · rank #79,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,670
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kegel
Nearest frequency peer: kegel (-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 “khon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kadyrov
Kadyrov
20,338 corpus weight
- Kagoshima
Kagoshima
20,336 corpus weight
- kampung
kampung
20,335 corpus weight
- Karelia
Karelia
20,334 corpus weight
- kegel
kegel
20,333 corpus weight
- khon
khon
20,331 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “khon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | khon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “khon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
khon is uncommon English at frequency #79,670 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Thai form of dance with music and narration.".
Zero misspellings are on record for khon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Thai โขน (kǒon). The correct English form is khon, spelled K-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how khon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon, a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Thai โขน (kǒon).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).