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“clips” and “CPS” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#6,664
“clips” frequency rank
#16,880
“CPS” frequency rank
23544
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature clips CPS
Definition plural of clip Initialism of characters per second.

Letter map: clips vs CPS

Shared letters muted; letters that set clips and CPS apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
clips
3 ch
CPS

Spelling & dictionary notes on clips vs CPS

clips and CPS 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 differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23544, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

clips is recorded at frequency rank #6,664, classified as anoun, pronounced /klɪps/. CPS is at rank #16,880, tagged as anoun.

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 23544, this pair ranks #408,542 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of clips vs CPS

Shared letters: cps. Private to "clips": il. Private to "CPS": -.

"clips" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "CPS" · 3 letters · shape CCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • clipscclips · cilps · clipps · clipss · clisp · cllips · clpis · lcips

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "clips" and "CPS" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "clips" vs "CPS" - which ranks higher?
"clips" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,664 in our English list, against #16,880 for "CPS". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "clips" and "CPS". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "clips" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "CPS" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #408,542 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "clips" and "CPS" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CGT vs CPS". 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 #408,542 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list