prc

Other forms of prc

plural

prcs·

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 prc

What does prc mean?

prc means "a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world".

How many syllables are in prc?

prc has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for prc?

Close synonyms include China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China. 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 prc a common word?

prc is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.