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MOOC

/muːk/noun

MOOC is spelled M-O-O-C: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, MOOC means “Acronym of massive open online course; a course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of MOOC is MOOCs.

How many letters and syllables are in MOOC?

Letters4: M-O-O-C
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,714th 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 MOOC?

MOOC appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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 MOOC?

  • /muːk/

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

Forms of MOOC

  • MOOCs plural

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

What does MOOC mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of massive open online course; a course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.

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

MOOC in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Massive Open Online Course:

LanguageWords
FrenchCLOM

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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