cc
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "cc", 2-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "cc" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "cc" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
CC is aEnglishnoun. It means: Initialism of carbon copy. It ranks #5,583 in English word frequency. Often confused with co and CD.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for CC is 2 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,583 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 28 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for CC in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CD", "CM", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 English form is CC, spelled C-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Initialism of carbon copy.
- 2Initialism of cricket club.
- 3Initialism of cycling club.
- 4Initialism of Circuit Court.
- 5Initialism of community college.
- 6Initialism of credit card.
- 7Initialism of courtesy copy.
- 8Initialism of cryptocurrency.
- 9Initialism of cosmological constant.
- 10Initialism of contrasting colour.
- 11Initialism of cubic centimetre.
- 12Initialism of closed caption.
- 13Initialism of cirrocumulus.
- 14Initialism of compact cassette.
- 15Initialism of control change.
- 16Initialism of chief complaint.
- 17Initialism of cervical cancer.
- 18Initialism of City College.
- 19Initialism of community college.
- 20Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
- 21Initialism of company commander.
- 22Initialism of crowd control.
- 23Initialism of constructive criticism.
- 24Initialism of cross country.
- 25Initialism of Central Committee.
- 26Companion of the Order of Canada.
- 27The US Navy hull classification symbol for a battlecruiser; the only such ships authorized by Congress were of the Lexington-class, which were cancelled under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty with two being converted to aircraft carriers.
- 28Initialism of carbon capture.
Frequency rank: #5,583 in English
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