Clo
"clo" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Clo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,144) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,144
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of close (in street addresses).
Corpus desk
Index EN-clo · Clo · English
Clo · rank #48,144 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,144
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clasped
Nearest frequency peer: clasped (-2 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 “Clo”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- clasped
clasped
51,859 corpus weight
- Clo
Clo
51,857 corpus weight
- coauthor
coauthor
51,855 corpus weight
- Colson
Colson
51,853 corpus weight
- comming
comming
51,852 corpus weight
- Constantin
Constantin
51,851 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Clo” 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 | Clo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Clo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Clo is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #48,144 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of close (in street addresses).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Clo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CM", "CT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Clo, spelled C-L-O.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of close (in street addresses).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Clo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
33 Chestnut Clo, 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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).