Cylon
"cylon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cylon” is uncommon English (frequency #60,742 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,742
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A male given name of historical usage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cylon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cylon” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Cylon is uncommon English at frequency #60,742 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cylon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin Cylōn or its etymon Ancient Greek Κῠ́λων (Kŭ́lōn). The correct English form is Cylon, spelled C-Y-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name of historical usage.
- 2A male given name of historical usage.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Cylōn or its etymon Ancient Greek Κῠ́λων (Kŭ́lōn).
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 “Cylon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-Y-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.