cis
[ˈsis]
The verdict
“cis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,606) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,606
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cisgénero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cis · cis · Spanish
cis · rank #20,606 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,606
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH choto
Nearest frequency peer: choto (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cis”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- chido
chido
79,399 corpus weight
- chiquitos
chiquitos
79,398 corpus weight
- choto
choto
79,396 corpus weight
- cis
cis
79,395 corpus weight
- colaboran
colaboran
79,394 corpus weight
- colectivame…
colectivamente
79,392 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cis” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈsis] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cis is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈsis]. Frequency #20,606 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Cisgénero.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cis, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CV", "cu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cis, spelled C-I-S.
Definition
- 1Cisgénero.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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