Cylons
\si.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“Cylons” is uncommon French (frequency #71,411 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,411
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Cylon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cylons · Cylons · French
Cylons · rank #71,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,411
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cutting
Nearest frequency peer: cutting (-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 « Cylons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- curran
curran
28,593 corpus weight
- Curtius
Curtius
28,592 corpus weight
- cutting
cutting
28,591 corpus weight
- Cylons
Cylons
28,590 corpus weight
- cyrène
cyrène
28,589 corpus weight
- cystite
cystite
28,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cylons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cylons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cylons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cylons is uncommon French at frequency #71,411 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de Cylon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cylons in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cylons, spelled C-Y-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Cylon.
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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