Which to use
“clot” and “cloth” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,618
- “clot” frequency rank
- #6,772
- “cloth” frequency rank
- 29390
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | clot | cloth |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A thrombus, solidified mass of blood. | 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. |
Where the eye mixes clot and cloth
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: clot vs cloth
A purely visual mix-up. clot (/klɒt/) and cloth (/klɒθ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “clot” sits inside “cloth”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29390, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
clot is recorded at frequency rank #22,618, classified as anoun, pronounced /klɒt/. 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 29390, this pair ranks #363,405 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of clot vs cloth
Shared letters: clot. Private to "clot": -. Private to "cloth": h.
"clot" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "cloth" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "clot" and "cloth" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "clot" vs "cloth" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "clot" and "cloth" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "clot" 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 #363,405 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "clot" and "cloth" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "clot vs Croat". 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 #363,405 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.