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/mɪk/noun

mc is spelled M-C: 2 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mc means “Abbreviation of madarchod” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in mc?

Letters2: M-C
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,121st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 mc?

Mc appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st 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 mc?

  • /mək/
  • /mɪk/
  • /mæk/

Mc has one syllable (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: En-au-MC.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does mc mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalAbbreviation of madarchod.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of millicurie.

  3. 3

    informalAbbreviation of Minecraft.

noun

as MC
  1. 1

    Initialism of master of ceremonies.

  2. 2

    slangA rapper.

  3. 3

    Initialism of main colour.

  4. 4

    Initialism of medical center.

  5. 5

    Initialism of matching colour.

  6. 6

    Initialism of movie clip.

  7. 7

    Initialism of methylene chloride (“dichloromethane”).

  8. 8

    Initialism of motorcycle club.

verb

as MC
  1. 1

    To emcee, to act as a master of ceremonies.

  2. 2

    To rap.

phrase

as MC
  1. 1

    Initialism of merry Christmas.

noun

as Mc
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of megacycle, an obsolete unit equivalent to a megahertz.

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

Where does mc come from?

Abbreviation of Mac-, from Irish and Scottish Gaelic mac (“son”).

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

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