plc
/ˌpiː ˌɛl ˈsiː/noun
plc is spelled P-L-C: 3 letters. It appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plc means “Initialism of public limited company” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of plc is plcs.
How many letters and syllables are in plc?
| Letters | 3: P-L-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | 4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is plc?
Plc appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th 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 plc?
- /ˌpiː ˌɛl ˈsiː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-plc.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with plc?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as plc.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cpl.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of plc
- plcs plural
- p.l.c.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does plc mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Initialism of public limited company.
- 2
Initialism of programmable logic controller.
noun
- 1
Initialism of public limited company.
- 2
Initialism of programmable logic controller.
- 3
Initialism of packet loss concealment.
- 4
Abbreviation of placebo.
- 5
Initialism of phospholipase C.
- 6
Initialism of prefecture-level city.
- 7
Initialism of power line communication.
- 8
Initialism of program-length commercial.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Plc in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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.