cyclonic
"cyclonic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cyclonic” is uncommon English (frequency #59,315 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,315
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cyclonic · cyclonic · English
cyclonic · rank #59,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,315
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Dailey
Nearest frequency peer: Dailey (+1 rank slots)
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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 “cyclonic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cubism
cubism
40,691 corpus weight
- cubist
cubist
40,690 corpus weight
- cud
cud
40,689 corpus weight
- cyclonic
cyclonic
40,686 corpus weight
- Dailey
Dailey
40,685 corpus weight
- daunted
daunted
40,681 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cyclonic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyclonic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cyclonic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cyclonic is uncommon English at frequency #59,315 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cyclonic, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cyclone + -ic. The correct English form is cyclonic, spelled C-Y-C-L-O-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone.
- 2Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cyclonic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.
An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
Etymology
From cyclone + -ic.
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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