cinque
/sɪŋk/
"cinque" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cinque” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #49,253 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #49,253
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
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) |
Where “cinque” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for cinque is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɪŋk/. Corpus data places it at rank #49,253 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “cinque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-I-N-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɪŋk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “clique” - see the side-by-side comparison. cinque vs clique
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.