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alc

noun, adjective

alc is spelled A-L-C: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alc means “Abbreviation of alcohol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in alc?

Letters3: A-L-C
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 49,949th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is alc?

Alc appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with alc?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as alc.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: cal, lac.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does alc mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of alcohol.

    5.3% alc

noun

as ALC
  1. 1

    Initialism of automatic level control.

  2. 2

    Initialism of alternate level of care.

  3. 3

    Initialism of alternative learning center.

adjective

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of alcoholic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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