CLC
"clc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CLC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,694) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,694
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Campaign Legal Center.
Corpus desk
Index EN-clc · CLC · English
CLC · rank #44,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coldness
Nearest frequency peer: coldness (+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 “CLC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- chronograph
chronograph
55,312 corpus weight
- clairvoyant
clairvoyant
55,310 corpus weight
- CLC
CLC
55,307 corpus weight
- coldness
coldness
55,306 corpus weight
- coleslaw
coleslaw
55,305 corpus weight
- collard
collard
55,304 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CLC” 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 | CLC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CLC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CLC is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #44,694 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CLC, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is CLC, spelled C-L-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Campaign Legal Center.
- 2Initialism of Central Land Council.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CLC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the extensive report supporting its request the Campaign Legal Center also claims the Secretary may have made false statements and omissions on a government form. While the allegations aren’t new, CLC is calling on the inspector general to investigate whether Ross acted knowingly when he allegedly violated the law.
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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