More precisely, it doesn't have a string type.

It certainly has string literals, which are a kind of type.

That's the thing, they're not a type - they're just an array of char with an unspecified length, indistinguishable from any other array of char or pointer to char. Only the convention of ending them with a null character makes them usable at all.

printf("%lu\n", sizeof("Well, actshully")); -> 16

One could say that C has a different type for each string size plus the joker pointer to char.

That's because they were conflated with both arrays and pointers.