# Clo vs clone

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Clo
*noun · frequency rank #48,144*
Abbreviation of close (in street addresses).

### clone
*noun · IPA /kloʊn/ · frequency rank #11,518*
A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clo-vs-clone