# clog

> English word · Noun · IPA /klɒɡ/ · frequency rank #29,215

## Definitions
1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
2. A blockage.
3. A shoe of any type.
4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

## Etymology
Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin and derived from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, mass, clasp”); compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.

## Easily confused with
- **co** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-co)
- **cop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cop)
- **con** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-con)
- **cow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cow)
- **cos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cos)
- **col** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-col)
- **cox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cox)
- **cod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cod)
- **cor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cor)
- **coo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-coo)
- **cot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cot)
- **Coe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-coe)
- **coz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-coz)
- **coa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-coa)
- **coy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-coy)
- **cob** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cob)
- **cog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cog)
- **CRO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cro)
- **CTO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cto)
- **Cov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clog-vs-cov)

## Common misspellings (6)
`cclog`, `clgo`, `cllog`, `clogg`, `colg`, `lcog`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clog