Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ck

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables
ck
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of cytokeratin.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of cytokine.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of creatine kinase.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of candidate key.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of Crip-killer.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Abbreviation of creek.

noun

Abbreviation of check.

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What does ck mean?
Initialism of cytokeratin.

How to pronounce ck

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