c

1. 1.

   being ten more than ninety

   Synonymshundredone hundred100

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of c

plural

cs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about c

What does c mean?

c means "a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in c?

c has 1 syllable: c. In IPA it is /ˈsi/.

What is another word for c?

Close synonyms include degree centigrade, degree Celsius, speed of light, light speed, vitamin C. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is c a common word?

c is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with c?

37 words rhyme with c. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.