Cyr
/sɪɚ/
"cyr" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cyr” is uncommon English (frequency #60,743 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,743
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cyr · Cyr · English
Cyr · rank #60,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,743
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cylon
Nearest frequency peer: Cylon (-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 “Cyr”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Dawood
Dawood
39,254 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cyr” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cyr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /sɪɚ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #60,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cyr” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cyr is uncommon English at frequency #60,743 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /sɪɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Cyr has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Cyr, spelled C-Y-R.
Definition
- 1A surname.
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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