c
[ˈse]
The verdict
“c” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #324 in Spanish word frequency and used as a character.
- #324
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1
- letter
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | c |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈse] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for c is 1 letters long, classified as a character, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈse]. Corpus data places it at rank #324 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.".
c has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "ca", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is c, spelled C.
Definition
- 1Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “c”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈse] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “co” - see the side-by-side comparison. c vs co
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.