cca
[t͡sɛː.t͡sɛ.aː]
The verdict
“cca” is uncommon German (frequency #86,323 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,323
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - cca, circa
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cca |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [t͡sɛː.t͡sɛ.aː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cca” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cca is uncommon German at frequency #86,323 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [t͡sɛː.t͡sɛ.aː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cca, circa".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cca, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is cca, spelled C-C-A.
Definition
- 1cca, circa
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.