Which to use
“Clo” and “cloth” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #48,144
- “Clo” frequency rank
- #6,772
- “cloth” frequency rank
- 54916
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Clo | cloth |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Abbreviation of close (in street addresses). | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically. |
Letter map: Clo vs cloth
Shared letters muted; letters that set Clo and cloth apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Clo runs 3 letters (CCV) against cloth's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Corpus notes: Clo and cloth
Clo and cloth 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 extra letter(s) - “Clo” sits inside “cloth”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54916, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Clo is recorded at frequency rank #48,144, classified as anoun. cloth is at rank #6,772, tagged as anoun, pronounced /klɒθ/.
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 54916, this pair ranks #137,506 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of Clo vs cloth
Shared letters: clo. Private to "Clo": -. Private to "cloth": ht.
"Clo" · 3 letters · shape CCV · "cloth" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- cloth ← ccloth · clloth · cloht · clothh · clotth · cltoh · colth · lcoth
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
You've compared "Clo" and "cloth". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "Clo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cloth" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #137,506 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Clo" and "cloth" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CGT vs Clo". 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 #137,506 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.