CC

noun

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"cc" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“CC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,583) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,583
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of carbon copy.

Corpus desk

Index EN-cc · CC · English

CC · rank #5,583 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,583
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH cattle

Nearest frequency peer: cattle (-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 “CC”

Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below

corpus weight

What this shows Bars place “CC” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

CC vs co
0% similar
CC vs CD
50% similar
CC vs CM
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for CC
PropertyValue
HeadwordCC
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters2
Frequency rank#5,583
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Corpus rank beside confusables of “CC”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).CClands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “cattle” (#5,582), “classroom” (#5,584), “casting” (#5,581). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “CC” is #5,583. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CC is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CD", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #5,583 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 28 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Zero misspellings are on record for CC in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CD", "CM", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is CC, spelled C-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Initialism of carbon copy.
  2. 2
    Initialism of cricket club.
  3. 3
    Initialism of cycling club.
  4. 4
    Initialism of Circuit Court.
  5. 5
    Initialism of community college.
  6. 6
    Initialism of credit card.
  7. 7
    Initialism of courtesy copy.
  8. 8
    Initialism of cryptocurrency.
  9. 9
    Initialism of cosmological constant.
  10. 10
    Initialism of contrasting colour.
  11. 11
    Initialism of cubic centimetre.
  12. 12
    Initialism of closed caption.
  13. 13
    Initialism of cirrocumulus.
  14. 14
    Initialism of compact cassette.
  15. 15
    Initialism of control change.
  16. 16
    Initialism of chief complaint.
  17. 17
    Initialism of cervical cancer.
  18. 18
    Initialism of City College.
  19. 19
    Initialism of community college.
  20. 20
    Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
  21. 21
    Initialism of company commander.
  22. 22
    Initialism of crowd control.
  23. 23
    Initialism of constructive criticism.
  24. 24
    Initialism of cross country.
  25. 25
    Initialism of Central Committee.
  26. 26
    Companion of the Order of Canada.
  27. 27
    The 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.
  28. 28
    Initialism of carbon capture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how CC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]
  2. Community Colleges […] Four-year schools are losing ground to CCs.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CC"?
"CC" is spelled C-C.
What does "CC" mean?
As a noun, "CC" means: Initialism of carbon copy.
What words are commonly confused with "CC"?
"CC" is commonly confused with "co", "CD", "CM". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "CC" come from?
"CC" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list