cinco
\ˈθiŋ.ko\
The verdict
“cinco” is uncommon French (frequency #66,591 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,591
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cinco · cinco · French
cinco · rank #66,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,591
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chouïa
Nearest frequency peer: chouïa (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cinco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chongqing
Chongqing
33,414 corpus weight
- choupi
choupi
33,413 corpus weight
- chouïa
chouïa
33,412 corpus weight
- cinco
cinco
33,410 corpus weight
- clientéliste
clientéliste
33,408 corpus weight
- Cléry
Cléry
33,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cinco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈθiŋ.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cinco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cinco is uncommon French at frequency #66,591 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈθiŋ.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cinq.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cinco, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cinco, spelled C-I-N-C-O.
Definition
- 1Cinq.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cinco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« …. Durante este tiempo no pasaban cinco minutos sin que el espacio se viera ennegrecido por los aviones alemanes. …. »
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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