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CVN

noun

CVN is spelled C-V-N: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, CVN means “nuclear-powered aircraft carrier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of CVN is CVNs.

How many letters and syllables are in CVN?

Letters3: C-V-N
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th 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 CVN?

CVN appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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 CVN

  • CVNs plural

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

What does CVN mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USnuclear-powered aircraft carrier

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

Where does CVN come from?

Initialism for Cruiser Voler Nuclear. See French voler (“to fly”).

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

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