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CVA

noun

CVA is spelled C-V-A: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,894th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, CVA means “Initialism of cerebrovascular accident” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of CVA is CVAs.

How many letters and syllables are in CVA?

Letters3: C-V-A
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 62,894th 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 CVA?

CVA appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,894th 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 CVA

  • CVAs plural

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

What does CVA mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of cerebrovascular accident.

  2. 2

    Initialism of costovertebral angle.

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

CVA in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense initialism of cerebrovascular accident – see also cerebrovascular accident:

LanguageWords
FrenchAVC
PortugueseAVC

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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