Cilicia
/sɪˈlɪsɪə/
"cilicia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cilicia” is uncommon English (frequency #77,532 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,532
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient region in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey, famed for cilice, i.e. haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cilicia · Cilicia · English
Cilicia · rank #77,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,532
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chur
Nearest frequency peer: chur (-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 “Cilicia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Christabel
Christabel
22,471 corpus weight
- chur
chur
22,470 corpus weight
- Cilicia
Cilicia
22,469 corpus weight
- cineplex
cineplex
22,468 corpus weight
- Clarisse
Clarisse
22,465 corpus weight
- classicist
classicist
22,464 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cilicia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cilicia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈlɪsɪə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cilicia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cilicia is uncommon English at frequency #77,532 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /sɪˈlɪsɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ancient region in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey, famed for cilice, i.e. haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cilicia, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Cilicia, from Ancient Greek Κιλικία (Kilikía). The correct English form is Cilicia, spelled C-I-L-I-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient region in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey, famed for cilice, i.e. haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Cilicia, from Ancient Greek Κιλικία (Kilikía).
This word in other languages
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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