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cinnamon

/ˈsɪəmən/noun, adjective

cinnamon is spelled C-I-N-N-A-M-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is cinamon: about 610 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Cinnamon is a noun meaning “A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum…”. The plural of cinnamon is cinnamons.

How many letters and syllables are in cinnamon?

Letters8: C-I-N-N-A-M-O-N
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, cinamon, about 610 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell cinnamon?

Cinnamon is spelled C-I-N-N-A-M-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for cinnamon in either form.

cinnamonthe right spelling19,650 searches a month
cinamona missing n610 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is cinnamon?

Cinnamon appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 cinnamon?

  • British /ˈsɪnəmən/
  • US /ˈsɪəmən/
  • US /ˈsɪnəmɪn/

Cinnamon has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of cinnamon

  • cinnamons plural

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

What does cinnamon mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.

  2. 2

    Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).

  3. 3

    A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as a trade name for spices made of any of the species above.

    cinnamon toast

  4. 4

    true cinnamon, the product made of Cinnamomum verum

  5. 5

    A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.

    They instructed the upholsterer to do the sofa in cinnamon and the ottoman in umber.

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.

  2. 2

    Of a yellowish-brown color.

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

Cinnamon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcannelier (Cinnamomum verum), cannelle (spice)
GermanZimtbaum (Cinnamomum verum), Zimt, Kaneel (spice)
Portuguesecaneleira (Cinnamomum verum), canela (spice), de canela (flavor)
Spanishcanelo (Cinnamomum verum), canela (spice), color canela (color)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cinnamon come from?

From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon), later κίνναμον (kínnamon), according to Herodotus from Phoenician [Term?], cognate with Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (qinnāmōn).

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

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