Which to use
“cleve” and “clone” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #47,535
- “cleve” frequency rank
- #11,518
- “clone” frequency rank
- 59053
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cleve | clone |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A room; chamber. | A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. |
Letter map: cleve vs clone
Shared letters muted; letters that set cleve and clone apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.
Pair insight - cleve / clone
cleve and clone are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59053, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cleve is recorded at frequency rank #47,535, classified as anoun. clone is at rank #11,518, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kloʊn/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 59053, this pair ranks #108,601 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of cleve vs clone
Shared letters: cel. Private to "cleve": v. Private to "clone": no.
"cleve" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "clone" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "cleve" vs "clone" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've compared "cleve" and "clone". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "cleve" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "clone" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #108,601 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cleve" and "clone" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cleaved vs cleve". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #108,601 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.