CME
"cme" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CME” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,733) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,733
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of continuing medical education.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cme · CME · English
CME · rank #32,733 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,733
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chinook
Nearest frequency peer: chinook (-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 “CME”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- charade
charade
67,272 corpus weight
- chinook
chinook
67,270 corpus weight
- CME
CME
67,268 corpus weight
- coed
coed
67,266 corpus weight
- coexistence
coexistence
67,265 corpus weight
- coiled
coiled
67,263 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CME” 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 | CME |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CME”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CME is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CT", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #32,733 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
CME has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CT", "CR", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is CME, spelled C-M-E.
Definition
- 1Initialism of continuing medical education.
- 2Initialism of coronal mass ejection.
- 3Initialism of cystoid macular edema.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CME appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If the Earth had been in its path, this would have been followed minutes to hours later by the electrons and protons accelerated by the blast, followed by the CME, a billion-ton cloud of magnetized plasma.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).