CBS
"cbs" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CBS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,664) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,664
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Columbia Broadcasting System: a U.S. television and radio network, now officially known as CBS Broadcasting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cbs · CBS · English
CBS · rank #5,664 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,664
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH buffalo
Nearest frequency peer: buffalo (-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 “CBS”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- binding
binding
94,340 corpus weight
- blank
blank
94,339 corpus weight
- buffalo
buffalo
94,338 corpus weight
- CBS
CBS
94,337 corpus weight
- commons
commons
94,336 corpus weight
- contacts
contacts
94,334 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CBS” 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 | CBS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CBS”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CBS is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CD", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #5,664 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CBS, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is CBS, spelled C-B-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Columbia Broadcasting System: a U.S. television and radio network, now officially known as CBS Broadcasting.
- 2Initialism of Christian Brothers School.
- 3Initialism of Component-Based Servicing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CBS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
President Trump sued CBS in a federal court alleging that the interview was deceptively “doctored” to help Harris beat Trump. CBS insisted that it was not doctored.
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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