club
/klʌb/
"club" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“club” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #630 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #630
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
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 | club |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klʌb/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “club” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for club is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /klʌb/. Corpus data places it at rank #630 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for club, with forms such as "cclub", "clbu", and "cllub". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CU", "cut", "cup", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“b… The correct English form is club, spelled C-L-U-B.
Definition
- 1A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- 2A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- 3A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- 4An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- 5An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- 6A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- 7An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- 8A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- 9A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- 10Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- 11A club sandwich.
- 12The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
- 13The propeller of an aeroplane.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cclub,clbu,cllub,clubb,culb,lcub
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of club - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “club”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-L-U-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /klʌb/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “CU” - see the side-by-side comparison. club vs CU
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.