pekan
noun
pekan is spelled P-E-K-A-N: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pekan means “A fisher cat or fisher (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pekan is pekans.
How many letters and syllables are in pekan?
| Letters | 5: P-E-K-A-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is pekan?
Pekan appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
What rhymes with pekan?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pekan.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: knape.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of pekan
- pekans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pekan mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A fisher cat or fisher (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti)
- 2
An American marten (Martes americana).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does pekan come from?
From the Abenaki apanakes (“pine marten, Martes americana”), or a Penobscot cognate of it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).