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oc

adverb

oc is spelled O-C: 2 letters. It appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, oc means “Initialism of of course” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in oc?

Letters2: O-C
In writing3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th 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 oc?

Oc appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 oc?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-OC.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does oc mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    Initialism of of course.

noun

as Oc
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of October.

noun

as OC
  1. 1

    Initialism of original content.

  2. 2

    slangInitialism of original character.

  3. 3

    UKInitialism of out of character.

  4. 4

    Officer of the Order of Canada.

  5. 5

    Initialism of Officer Commanding.

  6. 6

    Initialism of office consultation.

  7. 7

    Initialism of office conference.

  8. 8

    Initialism of organizing committee.

adjective

as OC
  1. 1

    Initialism of obsessive-compulsive.

  2. 2

    Initialism of on camera.

  3. 3

    Initialism of of color.

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

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