# Cinco vs cisco

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### cisco
*noun · IPA /ˈsɪskəʊ/ · frequency rank #15,128*
Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-cisco