# WC vs Wu

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### WC
*noun · IPA /ˌdʌbəlju ˈsiː/ · frequency rank #17,056*
Initialism of water closet: a lavatory; a toilet.

### Wu
*name · IPA /ˈwuː/ · frequency rank #9,555*
Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wc-vs-wu