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sc

UK /æʃ/noun

sc is spelled S-C: 2 letters. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sc means “Initialism of softcover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sc is æscas.

How many letters and syllables are in sc?

Letters2: S-C
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 sc?

Sc appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 sc?

  • UK /æʃ/

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

What rhymes with sc?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sc from its last stressed vowel (/æʃ/, British pronunciation):

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 sc

  • æscas plural
  • æsh
  • ash

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

What does sc mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of softcover.

  2. 2

    Initialism of small caps.

  3. 3

    Initialism of single crochet.

  4. 4

    Initialism of screen capture; screenshot.

adjective

as SC
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of subcutaneous.

noun

as SC
  1. 1

    Initialism of service charge.

  2. 2

    Initialism of superior court.

  3. 3

    Initialism of status conference.

  4. 4

    Initialism of settlement conference.

  5. 5

    Initialism of small claims.

  6. 6

    Initialism of State College.

  7. 7

    Initialism of Senior Counsel.

  8. 8

    AustraliaInitialism of shopping centre.

noun

as Sc
  1. 1

    The Scott catalogue of stamp values.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of subcosta.

noun

as æsc
  1. 1

    The name of the Latin script letter Æ/æ.

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

Where does sc come from?

Learned borrowing from Old English æsċ.

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

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