BCC
"bcc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“BCC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,818) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,818
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of bcc; initialism of blind carbon copy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bcc · BCC · English
BCC · rank #37,818 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,818
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH barracuda
Nearest frequency peer: barracuda (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “BCC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- baited
baited
62,187 corpus weight
- bap
bap
62,185 corpus weight
- barracuda
barracuda
62,184 corpus weight
- BCC
BCC
62,183 corpus weight
- Beauchamp
Beauchamp
62,182 corpus weight
- Belarusian
Belarusian
62,180 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “BCC” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BCC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “BCC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BCC is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "by", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #37,818 among 4,121 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for BCC in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "by", "bi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is BCC, spelled B-C-C.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of bcc; initialism of blind carbon copy.
- 2Initialism of basal cell carcinoma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BCC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ulcerated BCC may mimic SCC, and Bowen's disease may be misdiagnosed for the superficial and morphoeic forms.
Among the inhibitors of the Hh pathway that interact directly with SMO, vismodegib and sonidegib are the two compounds approved by FDA in 2012 and 2015, respectively, for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).