cyberpunk
\si.bɛʁ.pœŋk\
The verdict
“cyberpunk” is uncommon French (frequency #51,393 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,393
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sous-genre de la science-fiction dans un futur proche incorporant une esthétique et des thématiques centrés sur la technologie informatique, souvent dans un monde dystopique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyberpunk · cyberpunk · French
cyberpunk · rank #51,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,393
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH cyberattaques
Nearest frequency peer: cyberattaques (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cyberpunk”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- crépus
crépus
48,611 corpus weight
- cyberattaqu…
cyberattaques
48,609 corpus weight
- cyberpunk
cyberpunk
48,608 corpus weight
- célérité
célérité
48,607 corpus weight
- céréaliers
céréaliers
48,606 corpus weight
- Cîteaux
Cîteaux
48,605 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cyberpunk” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyberpunk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.bɛʁ.pœŋk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cyberpunk” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cyberpunk is uncommon French at frequency #51,393 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.bɛʁ.pœŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous-genre de la science-fiction dans un futur proche incorporant une esthétique et des thématiques centrés sur la technologie informatique, souvent dans un monde dystopique.".
cyberpunk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cyberpunk, spelled C-Y-B-E-R-P-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de la science-fiction dans un futur proche incorporant une esthétique et des thématiques centrés sur la technologie informatique, souvent dans un monde dystopique.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cyberpunk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.