Cylon
"cylon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cylon” is uncommon English (frequency #60,742 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,742
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name of historical usage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cylon · Cylon · English
Cylon · rank #60,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,742
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cyr
Nearest frequency peer: Cyr (+1 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 “Cylon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crockpot
crockpot
39,263 corpus weight
- Cruickshank
Cruickshank
39,262 corpus weight
- Cylon
Cylon
39,259 corpus weight
- Cyr
Cyr
39,258 corpus weight
- dabbed
dabbed
39,257 corpus weight
- dashcam
dashcam
39,256 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cylon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Cylon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cylon is uncommon English at frequency #60,742 among 5,599 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cylon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now the cittie of Athens had a long time bene vexed and troubled through Cylons heynous offence, euer ſence the yere that Megacles (gouernour of the cittie of Athens) dyd with fayer words handle ſo the confederates of the rebellion of Cylon, which had taken ſanctuarie within the liberties of the temple of Minerua: […]
Now the Cylonian villany had a long while diſtur’d the Commonwealth, even from that time when Megacles the Archon perſwaded the conſpiratours with Cylon that took ſanctuary in Minerva’s Temple, to ſtand to a fair trial; […]
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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