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ci

/ˈsɪ/noun

ci is spelled C-I: 2 letters. It appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ci means “One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ci?

Letters2: C-I
In writing3.4 times per million words; the 14,307th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is ci?

Ci appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce ci?

  • /ˈsɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-CI.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does ci mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms

noun

as CI
  1. 1

    Initialism of civil infraction.

  2. 2

    Initialism of cochlear implant.

  3. 3

    Initialism of competitive intelligence.

  4. 4

    Initialism of contextual inquiry.

  5. 5

    Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.

  6. 6

    Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).

  7. 7

    Initialism of creative industries.

  8. 8

    Initialism of cast iron.

symbol

as c͞i
  1. 1

    datedAn orthographic ⟨ci⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /ʃ/, as in the word "delicious".

noun

as cI
  1. 1

    Abbreviated form of cylindrical inclusion. (a form of cylindrical inclusion)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does ci come from?

Borrowed from Mandarin 詞／词 (cí).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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