CC
The verdict
“CC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,829) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,829
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cheiro corporal
Corpus desk
Index PT-cc · CC · Portuguese
CC · rank #5,829 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,829
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH censo
Nearest frequency peer: censo (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “CC”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bacia
bacia
94,177 corpus weight
- banana
banana
94,175 corpus weight
- CC
CC
94,172 corpus weight
- censo
censo
94,171 corpus weight
- citar
citar
94,170 corpus weight
- coco
coco
94,168 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “CC” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | CC |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “CC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CC is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "ce", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #5,829 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CC, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "ce", "cu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is CC, spelled C-C.
Definition
- 1cheiro corporal
- 2cheiro de corpo
- 3cartão de cidadão
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No Brasil, o banho diário é virtude e o CC (cheiro corporal) é um tabu moral e olfativo. (jornal A Gazeta do Povo de 27 de setembro de 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20221126001934/https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/marleth-silva/ate-que-enfim-a-chuva-parou/)
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.