CMA
"cma" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CMA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,726) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,726
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cma · CMA · English
CMA · rank #26,726 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,726
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clouded
Nearest frequency peer: clouded (-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 “CMA”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Clemens
Clemens
73,279 corpus weight
- clipper
clipper
73,278 corpus weight
- clouded
clouded
73,276 corpus weight
- CMA
CMA
73,275 corpus weight
- colossus
colossus
73,273 corpus weight
- conductive
conductive
73,272 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CMA” 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 | CMA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CMA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CMA is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CT", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #26,726 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for CMA in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CT", "CR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is CMA, spelled C-M-A.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
- 2Initialism of certified management accountant.
- 3Abbreviation of China Meteorological Administration.
- 4Initialism of computer-marked assignment (that uses scan sheets).
- 5Abbreviation of calcium magnesium acetate.
- 6Abbreviation of comma, used in communication systems without punctuation marks (e.g., telegrams).
- 7Initialism of congestion management agency.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CMA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... WILFORD J. WILLY CMA SR GRADE LIEUTENANT AND JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SR GRADE LIEUTENANT CMA BOTH USNR CMA WERE KILLED PD COMMANDER SMITH ...
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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