CDR
"cdr" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CDR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,484) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,484
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Canadian depositary receipt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cdr · CDR · English
CDR · rank #28,484 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,484
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CCS
Nearest frequency peer: CCS (-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 “CDR”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Capricorn
Capricorn
71,522 corpus weight
- catapult
catapult
71,520 corpus weight
- CCS
CCS
71,518 corpus weight
- CDR
CDR
71,517 corpus weight
- cervix
cervix
71,514 corpus weight
- cheery
cheery
71,513 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CDR” 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 | CDR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CDR”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDR is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #28,484 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 10 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for CDR in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CM", "CT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 CDR, spelled C-D-R.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Canadian depositary receipt.
- 2Initialism of call detail record: a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.
- 3Initialism of common data rate.
- 4Initialism of content of decrement of register; cdr.
- 5Initialism of cup-to-disc ratio.
- 6Abbreviation of commander.
- 7Initialism of current divider rule or current division rule.
- 8Initialism of carbon dioxide removal.
- 9Initialism of cooldown reduction.
- 10Committee for the Defense of the Revolution
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CDR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coordinate term: VDR
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).