kagan

noun

The verdict

“kagan” is uncommon French (frequency #76,716 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,716
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Khagan.

Corpus desk

Index FR-kagan · kagan · French

kagan · rank #76,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,716
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH jumel

Nearest frequency peer: jumel (-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 « kagan »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kagan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for kagan
PropertyValue
Headwordkagan
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#76,716
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « kagan » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.kagantombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « jumel » (#76,715), « Juliers » (#76,714), « jugerai » (#76,713). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « kagan » est au #76,716. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

kagan is uncommon French at frequency #76,716 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Khagan.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kagan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kagan, spelled K-A-G-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Khagan.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how kagan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Na českém území se vyskytoval hunský kagan Attila a avarský kagan Bajan.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kagan"?
"kagan" is spelled K-A-G-A-N.
What does "kagan" mean?
As a noun, "kagan" means: Khagan.
What language does "kagan" come from?
"kagan" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kagan", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list