cinque
\ˈkin.kwe\
The verdict
“cinque” is uncommon French (frequency #59,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,888
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cinque · cinque · French
cinque · rank #59,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,888
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH checkpoint
Nearest frequency peer: checkpoint (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cinque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chauffait
chauffait
40,116 corpus weight
- chauffants
chauffants
40,115 corpus weight
- checkpoint
checkpoint
40,114 corpus weight
- cinque
cinque
40,113 corpus weight
- classifié
classifié
40,111 corpus weight
- climatiseurs
climatiseurs
40,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cinque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkin.kwe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cinque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cinque is uncommon French at frequency #59,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkin.kwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cinq.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cinque in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cinque, spelled C-I-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Cinq.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).