Cyrus
The verdict
“Cyrus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,547
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyrus · Cyrus · French
Cyrus · rank #12,547 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,547
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cumul
Nearest frequency peer: cumul (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cyrus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cruauté
cruauté
87,457 corpus weight
- culs
culs
87,456 corpus weight
- cumul
cumul
87,455 corpus weight
- Cyrus
Cyrus
87,454 corpus weight
- datent
datent
87,453 corpus weight
- demeurant
demeurant
87,452 corpus weight
What this shows « Cyrus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Cyrus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cyrus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Cyrus, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,547 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cyrus, with forms such as "ccyrus", "cryus", and "cyrrus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "CRS", "Cyr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Cyrus, spelled C-Y-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cyrus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec Flowers, la chanteuse Miley Cyrus vient de battre un incroyable record.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccyrus
- cryus
- cyrrus
- cyrsu
- cyruss
- cyurs
- cyyrus
- ycrus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cyrus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cyrus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).