ch
"ch" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ch” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,659) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,659
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of chain (“a unit of measurement equal to 22 yards”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ch · ch · English
ch · rank #7,659 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,659
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cab
Nearest frequency peer: cab (-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 “ch”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- builds
builds
92,345 corpus weight
- businessman
businessman
92,344 corpus weight
- cab
cab
92,343 corpus weight
- ch
ch
92,342 corpus weight
- chi
chi
92,341 corpus weight
- col
col
92,340 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ch” 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 | ch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ch”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ch is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #7,659 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ch, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CM", "CT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is ch, spelled C-H.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of chain (“a unit of measurement equal to 22 yards”).
- 2Abbreviation of chain (stitch)
- 3Abbreviation of channel, in reference to telephones, audio, radio, and television.
- 4Abbreviation of chapter (“main section of a book”).
- 5Abbreviation of chestnut (“a dark reddish-brown colored horse”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
5.1 ch surround sound
Ch 2 secondarily interrupts the flow between chs 1 and 3 (see 2.1–16n.).
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.