Caz
/kæz/
"caz" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Caz” is uncommon English (frequency #70,550 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,550
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diminutive of the female given name Carol.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caz · Caz · English
Caz · rank #70,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,550
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cautioning
Nearest frequency peer: cautioning (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Caz”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carranza
Carranza
29,458 corpus weight
- cascaded
cascaded
29,457 corpus weight
- cautioning
cautioning
29,452 corpus weight
- Caz
Caz
29,451 corpus weight
- Ceballos
Ceballos
29,449 corpus weight
- Cellini
Cellini
29,448 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Caz” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kæz/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Caz” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Caz is uncommon English at frequency #70,550 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kæz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A diminutive of the female given name Carol.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Caz in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: See Carol. The correct English form is Caz, spelled C-A-Z.
Definition
- 1A diminutive of the female given name Carol.
Etymology
See Carol.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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