Cacouna
\kɑ.ku.nɑ\
The verdict
“Cacouna” is uncommon French (frequency #84,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,601
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réserve indienne du Bas-Saint-Laurent fréquentée majoritairement par la Première Nation malécite de Viger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cacouna · Cacouna · French
Cacouna · rank #84,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,601
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cabin
Nearest frequency peer: cabin (-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 « Cacouna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabello
cabello
15,402 corpus weight
- cabin
cabin
15,401 corpus weight
- Cacouna
Cacouna
15,400 corpus weight
- cadastrales
cadastrales
15,399 corpus weight
- Cammas
Cammas
15,396 corpus weight
- campi
campi
15,395 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cacouna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cacouna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ.ku.nɑ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cacouna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cacouna is uncommon French at frequency #84,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɑ.ku.nɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cacouna in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cacouna, spelled C-A-C-O-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Réserve indienne du Bas-Saint-Laurent fréquentée majoritairement par la Première Nation malécite de Viger.
- 2Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Rivière-du-Loup.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cacouna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À un mois de Noël, une jeune mère de deux enfants de Cacouna a perdu la vie tragiquement, après avoir a été happée par une déneigeuse alors qu’elle faisait sa marche quotidienne avec son poupon de sept mois.
Début janvier 1998, je sortais de mes vacances des Fêtes passées à Cacouna, dans ma circonscription de Rivière-du-Loup.
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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