CNN
/ˈsiːɛnɛn/noun
CNN is spelled C-N-N: 3 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,444th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, CNN means “Initialism of convolutional neural network” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of CNN is CNNs.
How many letters and syllables are in CNN?
| Letters | 3: C-N-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,444th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is CNN?
CNN appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,444th 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).
How do you pronounce CNN?
- /ˈsiːɛnɛn/
CNN has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-CNN.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of CNN
- CNNs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does CNN mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Initialism of convolutional neural network.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).