c

About 219.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. letter The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
2. symbol voiceless palatal plosive.

   May stand in for palatalized [kʲ], [tʲ], or as a more economical transcription of [t͜ʃ] or a similar ch-like sound.

3. symbol the IPA affricate [t͜s].
4. symbol [c]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [c]-release, [c]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [c].
5. symbol A common rendering of the Semitic ayin, graphically resembling both Somali c and Semiticist ⟨ʿ⟩.
6. numeral cardinal number one hundred (100).
7. symbol centi-.
8. symbol The speed of light in a vacuum, 2.99792458 × 10 m/s.

Similar words

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Often followed by

and is for in to the c are of

Word family

C Cs c's cs c̄