# canto vs Cinco

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### canto
*noun · IPA /ˈkæntəʊ/ · frequency rank #36,474*
One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

### Cinco
*name · frequency rank #36,489*
A surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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