Cicely
"cicely" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cicely” is uncommon English (frequency #56,011 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,011
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Latin, a variant of Cecily and Cecilia used since the Middle Ages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cicely · Cicely · English
Cicely · rank #56,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,011
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chumps
Nearest frequency peer: chumps (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Cicely”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chauhan
Chauhan
43,994 corpus weight
- Chronos
Chronos
43,992 corpus weight
- chumps
chumps
43,991 corpus weight
- Cicely
Cicely
43,990 corpus weight
- Cincy
Cincy
43,989 corpus weight
- citron
citron
43,988 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cicely” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cicely |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cicely” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cicely is uncommon English at frequency #56,011 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Latin, a variant of Cecily and Cecilia used since the Middle Ages.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cicely, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Cicely, spelled C-I-C-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Latin, a variant of Cecily and Cecilia used since the Middle Ages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cicely appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
, Induction, Scene II First Servant. - - - Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket. Sly. Ay, the woman's maid of the house.
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.
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