ci
"ci" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ci” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,294) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,294
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms
Corpus desk
Index EN-ci · ci · English
ci · rank #14,294 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,294
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH choked
Nearest frequency peer: choked (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ci”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- celestial
celestial
85,711 corpus weight
- characteriz…
characterization
85,710 corpus weight
- chevy
chevy
85,709 corpus weight
- choked
choked
85,708 corpus weight
- ci
ci
85,707 corpus weight
- Clint
Clint
85,705 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ci” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ci |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ci”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ci is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #14,294 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Gloss: "One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms".
ci has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CM", "CT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Mandarin 詞／词 (cí). The correct English form is ci, spelled C-I.
Definition
- 1One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 詞／词 (cí).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.