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cyanic

/saɪˈænɪk/adjective

cyanic is an adjective meaning “Of cyanogen or its derivatives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does cyanic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of cyanogen or its derivatives

  2. 2

    azure-blue

  3. 3

    Containing an anthocyanin

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

How do you pronounce cyanic?

  • /saɪˈænɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cyanic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cyanic

  • more cyanic comparative
  • most cyanic superlative

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

How common is cyanic?

Cyanic appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).

Where does cyanic come from?

From cyan + -ic.

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