cinque
/sɪŋk/
"cinque" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cinque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,253
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cinque · cinque · English
cinque · rank #49,253 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,253
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chittagong
Nearest frequency peer: Chittagong (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cinque”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chewie
chewie
50,750 corpus weight
- Chittagong
Chittagong
50,749 corpus weight
- cinque
cinque
50,748 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobia
50,747 corpus weight
- cleaved
cleaved
50,746 corpus weight
- Coleraine
Coleraine
50,745 corpus weight
What this shows “cinque” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinque |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪŋk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cinque”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cinque (IPA /sɪŋk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,253 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cinque, with forms such as "ccinque", "cinnque", and "cinqeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "clique", "cirque", "conquer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of… The correct English form is cinque, spelled C-I-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cinque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.
Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccinque
- cinnque
- cinqeu
- cinqque
- cinuqe
- ciqnue
- cnique
- icnque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cinque - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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