CBC
"cbc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CBC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,121) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,121
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cbc · CBC · English
CBC · rank #15,121 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,121
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH catchy
Nearest frequency peer: catchy (-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 “CBC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- bursting
bursting
84,883 corpus weight
- catchy
catchy
84,881 corpus weight
- CBC
CBC
84,880 corpus weight
- ceremonial
ceremonial
84,879 corpus weight
- Chanel
Chanel
84,878 corpus weight
- cheque
cheque
84,877 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CBC” 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 | CBC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CBC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CBC is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CD", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #15,121 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CBC, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 CBC, spelled C-B-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- 2Initialism of Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company.
- 3Initialism of Congressional Black Caucus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CBC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In an email to CNN, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,’” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”
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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