cyan

Other forms of cyan

plural

cyans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cyan

What does cyan mean?

cyan means "a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cyan?

cyan has 2 syllables: cy-an. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /saɪˈæn/.

What is another word for cyan?

Close synonyms include bluish green, blue-green, teal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cyan a common word?

cyan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cyan?

4 words rhyme with cyan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.