Cl
"cl" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,908) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,908
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cluster.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cl · Cl · English
Cl · rank #8,908 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,908
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clarify
Nearest frequency peer: clarify (+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 “Cl”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- carriage
carriage
91,097 corpus weight
- censorship
censorship
91,095 corpus weight
- Cl
Cl
91,093 corpus weight
- clarify
clarify
91,092 corpus weight
- climbed
climbed
91,091 corpus weight
- comp
comp
91,090 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Cl” 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 | Cl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Cl”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cl is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #8,908 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Cl has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Cl, spelled C-L.
Definition
- 1A cluster.
- 2A cluster of galaxies — a galaxy cluster.
- 3A cluster of stars — a star cluster.
- 4close (in street addresses)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
33 Chestnut Cl, Anytown
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.