CCTV

abbrev

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#72,267

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

CCTV is anGermanabbrev. It means: Abkürzung für China Central Television – kein Plural

Key facts for CCTV
PropertyValue
HeadwordCCTV
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbrev
Letters4
Frequency rank#72,267
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of CCTV in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for CCTV is 4 letters long, classified as anabbrev. Corpus data places it at rank #72,267 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for CCTV in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is CCTV, spelled C-C-T-V, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abkürzung für China Central Television – kein Plural
  2. 2
    Abkürzung für Closed-Circuit TeleVision – Videoüberwachung/Videoüberwachungskamera

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #72,267 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CCTV"?
"CCTV" is spelled C-C-T-V.
What does "CCTV" mean?
As an abbrev, "CCTV" means: Abkürzung für China Central Television – kein Plural
What language does "CCTV" come from?
"CCTV" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.