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

#48,144
“Clo” frequency rank
#5,591
“crop” frequency rank
53735
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Clo crop
Definition Abbreviation of close (in street addresses). A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Letter map: Clo vs crop

Shared letters muted; letters that set Clo and crop apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
Clo
4 ch
crop

Corpus notes: Clo and crop

Clo and crop 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53735, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Clo is recorded at frequency rank #48,144, classified as anoun. crop is at rank #5,591, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kɹɒp/.

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 53735, this pair ranks #146,609 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Clo vs crop

Shared letters: co. Private to "Clo": l. Private to "crop": pr.

"Clo" · 3 letters · shape CCV  ·  "crop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cropccrop · corp · cropp · crpo · crrop · rcop

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Clo" and "crop" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary English text, does "Clo" or "crop" show up more?
"crop" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,591 in our English list, against #48,144 for "Clo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "Clo" and "crop". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Clo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crop" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #146,609 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Clo" and "crop" 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 #146,609 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