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cp

noun, verb

cp is spelled C-P: 2 letters. It appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cp means “Abbreviation of codepage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cp?

Letters2: C-P
In writing6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cp?

Cp appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th 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).

Forms of cp

  • comp.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cp mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of codepage.

    cp437, cp737, cp1253, etc.

  2. 2

    A program and command in Unix that is used to copy files and directories from one location to another.

adjective

as CP
  1. 1

    Initialism of copy-protected.

noun

as CP
  1. 1

    Initialism of cyberpunk.

  2. 2

    Initialism of corporal punishment.

  3. 3

    Initialism of custodial parent.

  4. 4

    Initialism of crease pattern.

  5. 5

    UKInitialism of county primary or community primary (school).

  6. 6

    Initialism of child pornography.

  7. 7

    Initialism of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).

  8. 8

    Initialism of cerebral palsy.

verb

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of compare.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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