Cuneo
/ˈkuːniəʊ/
"cuneo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cuneo” is uncommon English (frequency #93,588 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,588
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and comune, the capital of the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cuneo · Cuneo · English
Cuneo · rank #93,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,588
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cryptology
Nearest frequency peer: cryptology (-2 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 “Cuneo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- criminalise
criminalise
6,418 corpus weight
- Crispus
Crispus
6,417 corpus weight
- crumpling
crumpling
6,416 corpus weight
- cryptology
cryptology
6,415 corpus weight
- Cuneo
Cuneo
6,413 corpus weight
- Cyd
Cyd
6,409 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cuneo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cuneo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkuːniəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cuneo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cuneo is uncommon English at frequency #93,588 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkuːniəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Cuneo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Cuneo, from Latin cuneus (“wedge”), after the shape of the city, which is at the confluence of two rivers. Doublet of coin. The correct English form is Cuneo, spelled C-U-N-E-O.
Definition
- 1A city and comune, the capital of the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.
- 2A province of Piedmont, in northwestern Italy.
- 3A habitational surname from Italian.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Cuneo, from Latin cuneus (“wedge”), after the shape of the city, which is at the confluence of two rivers. Doublet of coin.
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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