Cyr
\siʁ\
The verdict
“Cyr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,760) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,760
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyr · Cyr · French
Cyr · rank #12,760 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,760
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH das
Nearest frequency peer: das (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Cyr »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- crêpes
crêpes
87,244 corpus weight
- cultivé
cultivé
87,243 corpus weight
- Cyr
Cyr
87,241 corpus weight
- das
das
87,240 corpus weight
- Deutsche
Deutsche
87,239 corpus weight
- diffamation
diffamation
87,238 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Cyr » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cyr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \siʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Cyr »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cyr is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cyril", "Cyrus", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \siʁ\. Frequency #12,760 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cyr in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cyril", "Cyrus", "sire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cyr, spelled C-Y-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cyr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après une 11ᵉ place, samedi, au 15 km classique Antoine Cyr a signé une 12e position, dimanche, au 15 km poursuite style libre.
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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