c
/siː/
"c" is a 1-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“c” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #463) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #463
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
Corpus desk
Index EN-c · c · English
c · rank #463 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #463
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH won't
Nearest frequency peer: won't (-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 neighbourhood for “c”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- special
special
99,541 corpus weight
- watch
watch
99,540 corpus weight
- won't
won't
99,539 corpus weight
- c
c
99,538 corpus weight
- either
either
99,537 corpus weight
- fucking
fucking
99,536 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “c” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | c |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | /siː/ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for c is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CA", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced /siː/. Frequency #463 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Gloss: "The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.".
Zero misspellings are on record for c in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CA", "CD", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”). The correct English form is c, spelled C.
Definition
- 1The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
Etymology
Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.