# Cinco

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #36,489

## Definitions
1. A surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.

## Etymology
Ultimately from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish Cinco, an alternative form of Sinco/Singco, which are historically transcriptions following Spanish orthography of a Hokkien name with honorific used as surnames since the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.

## Easily confused with
- **CNC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-cnc)
- **coco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-coco)
- **cine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-cine)
- **Congo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-congo)
- **condo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-condo)
- **Cindy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-cindy)
- **circa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-circa)
- **cisco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-cisco)
- **convo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-convo)
- **conch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-conch)
- **clinch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinco-vs-clinch)
- **ciao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ciao-vs-cinco)
- **chico** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chico-vs-cinco)
- **chino** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chino-vs-cinco)
- **canto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/canto-vs-cinco)
- **cinch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cinch-vs-cinco)
- **choco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/choco-vs-cinco)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccinco`, `cicno`, `cincco`, `cinnco`, `cinoc`, `cnico`, `icnco`

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