cian
Spanish, noun
cian is spelled C-I-A-N (4 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 70,049th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cian is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cyan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cían is a different word: “third-person plural present indicative of ciar”.
What does cian mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cyan
noun
- 1
masculinecyan
verb
- 1
third-person plural present indicative of ciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Tono de azul, entre los 487 y los 505 nm de longitud de onda, que es uno de los cuatro colores primarios substractivos empleados en imprenta
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cian
- cianes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cian
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cian in Spanish?
cian appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).