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SCU

noun

SCU is a noun meaning “Initialism of solitary confinement unit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-U, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of SCU is SCU's or SCUs.

What does SCU mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of solitary confinement unit.

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

Forms of SCU

  • SCU's plural
  • SCUs plural

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

How common is SCU?

SCU appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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).