# CDU vs co

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### CDU
*name · frequency rank #37,372*
Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”) (a major mainstream German political party)

### co
*noun · IPA /kəʊ/ · frequency rank #617*
Clipping of company.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cdu-vs-co