cian
[ˈsjãn]
The verdict
“cian” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #70,094 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,094
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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
Corpus desk
Index ES-cian · cian · Spanish
cian · rank #70,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,094
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cicuta
Nearest frequency peer: cicuta (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cian”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Chepe
Chepe
29,911 corpus weight
- chotos
chotos
29,909 corpus weight
- cian
cian
29,907 corpus weight
- cicuta
cicuta
29,906 corpus weight
- cifran
cifran
29,905 corpus weight
- ciática
ciática
29,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cian” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cian |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈsjãn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cian” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cian is uncommon Spanish at frequency #70,094 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈsjãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cian, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cian, spelled C-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tono 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
Synonyms
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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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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