cl
The verdict
“cl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,252) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,252
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zentiliter (= 0,01 l, 10⁻² l, ein hundertstel Liter)
Corpus desk
Index DE-cl · cl · German
cl · rank #10,252 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,252
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chirurgie
Nearest frequency peer: Chirurgie (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cl”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Carsten
Carsten
89,752 corpus weight
- CEO
CEO
89,751 corpus weight
- Chirurgie
Chirurgie
89,750 corpus weight
- cl
cl
89,749 corpus weight
- derweil
derweil
89,748 corpus weight
- Dimensionen
Dimensionen
89,747 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cl” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “cl” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cl is neighbouring look-alikes ("cm", "CT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,252 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Zentiliter (= 0,01 l, 10⁻² l, ein hundertstel Liter)".
cl has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cm", "CT", "Cs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is cl, spelled C-L.
Definition
- 1Zentiliter (= 0,01 l, 10⁻² l, ein hundertstel Liter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
30 cl Ethanol
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- "cl" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cm". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,252 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.