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gcd

noun

gcd is a noun meaning “Initialism of greatest common divisor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-C-D, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gcd is gcds.

What does gcd mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of greatest common divisor.

noun

as GCD
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of gcd.

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

Forms of gcd

  • gcds plural

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

How common is gcd?

Gcd appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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).

Gcd in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense initialism for greatest common divisor:

LanguageWords
FrenchPGCD, PGDC
GermanggT
PortugueseMDC
Spanishmcd

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.