Cancún
\kɑ̃.kun\
The verdict
“Cancún” is uncommon French (frequency #71,329 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,329
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Station balnéaire internationale se trouvant au Mexique dans l'État du Quintana Roo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancun · Cancún · French
Cancún · rank #71,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,329
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH campée
Nearest frequency peer: campée (-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 « Cancún »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- campait
campait
28,674 corpus weight
- campée
campée
28,673 corpus weight
- Cancún
Cancún
28,672 corpus weight
- candélabres
candélabres
28,671 corpus weight
- cannelures
cannelures
28,670 corpus weight
- cantonnent
cantonnent
28,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cancún » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cancún |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.kun\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cancún » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cancún is uncommon French at frequency #71,329 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɑ̃.kun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Station balnéaire internationale se trouvant au Mexique dans l'État du Quintana Roo.".
Cancún doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cancún, spelled C-A-N-C-Ú-N.
Definition
- 1Station balnéaire internationale se trouvant au Mexique dans l'État du Quintana Roo.
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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