cyan
[siɑ̃]
The verdict
“cyan” is uncommon German (frequency #53,600 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,600
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zyan (en composé)
Corpus desk
Index DE-cyan · cyan · German
cyan · rank #53,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,600
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Dachstein
Nearest frequency peer: Dachstein (+2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „cyan“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- cosa
cosa
46,405 corpus weight
- create
create
46,404 corpus weight
- cyan
cyan
46,401 corpus weight
- Dachstein
Dachstein
46,399 corpus weight
- dali
dali
46,398 corpus weight
- DDoS
DDoS
46,397 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cyan“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siɑ̃] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cyan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cyan is uncommon German at frequency #53,600 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [siɑ̃]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zyan (en composé)".
cyan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is cyan, spelled C-Y-A-N.
Definition
- 1Zyan (en composé)
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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