CBA
"cba" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CBA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,283) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,283
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of County Bar Association.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cba · CBA · English
CBA · rank #19,283 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,283
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH categorized
Nearest frequency peer: categorized (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “CBA”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Calais
Calais
80,723 corpus weight
- canning
canning
80,721 corpus weight
- categorized
categorized
80,719 corpus weight
- CBA
CBA
80,718 corpus weight
- CG
CG
80,716 corpus weight
- chopper
chopper
80,715 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CBA” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CBA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CBA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CBA is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CD", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #19,283 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CBA, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CD", "CM", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is CBA, spelled C-B-A.
Definition
- 1Initialism of County Bar Association.
- 2Initialism of Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- 3Initialism of Consumer Brands Association.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CBA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The memo did not contain an explicit commitment to remove all artificial dyes by the end of 2026, as Kennedy called for on Tuesday, but the proposal said CBA members were committed to "supporting agency actions."
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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