akan
\a.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“akan” is uncommon French (frequency #80,838 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,838
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée principalement au Ghana de la famille kwa, du sous-groupe des langues tano central.
Corpus desk
Index FR-akan · akan · French
akan · rank #80,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,838
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH akademie
Nearest frequency peer: akademie (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « akan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agissante
agissante
19,166 corpus weight
- agressant
agressant
19,165 corpus weight
- akademie
akademie
19,164 corpus weight
- akan
akan
19,163 corpus weight
- alarm
alarm
19,161 corpus weight
- alek
alek
19,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « akan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | akan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « akan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
akan is uncommon French at frequency #80,838 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée principalement au Ghana de la famille kwa, du sous-groupe des langues tano central.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for akan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is akan, spelled A-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée principalement au Ghana de la famille kwa, du sous-groupe des langues tano central.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how akan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’akan forme un continuum de dialectes.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).