cisco

\sis.ko\

/\sis.ko\/ noun

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The verdict

“cisco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,137
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de corégones des lacs d’Amérique du Nord.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cisco · cisco · French

cisco · rank #23,137 · 7 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,137
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cold

Nearest frequency peer: cold (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cisco »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cisco » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cisco vs csc
60% similar
cisco vs coco
60% similar
cisco vs Cissé
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cisco
PropertyValue
Headwordcisco
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sis.ko\
Letters5
Frequency rank#23,137
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cisco »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).ciscose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cold » (#23,139), « chabot » (#23,134), « collent » (#23,140). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cisco » est au #23,137. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around cisco (IPA \sis.ko\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,137 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de corégones des lacs d’Amérique du Nord.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cisco, with forms such as "ccisco", "cicso", and "ciscco". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "csc", "coco", "Cissé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cisco, spelled C-I-S-C-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de corégones des lacs d’Amérique du Nord.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cisco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les ciscos sont généralement de couleur argentée, mais de nombreuses espèces arborent des couleurs différentes.
  2. Donc, si jamais vous capturez un petit corégone, regardez-le attentivement car il pourrait bien s’agir d’un cisco.

This word in other languages

cisco(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccisco
  • cicso
  • ciscco
  • cisoc
  • cissco
  • csico
  • icsco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cisco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccisco1cicso2ciscco1cisoc2cissco1csico2icsco2
Edit distance from "cisco"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cisco"?
"cisco" is spelled C-I-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is \sis.ko\.
What does "cisco" mean?
As a noun, "cisco" means: Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de corégones des lacs d’Amérique du Nord.
What words are commonly confused with "cisco"?
"cisco" is commonly confused with "csc", "coco", "Cissé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cisco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cisco" is \sis.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cisco" come from?
"cisco" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cisco", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

croie#23,159Aline#23,094adage#23,090dénué#23,187

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

common7 variantsavouez7 variantseagles7 variantsEHPAD7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list