CMO
"cmo" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CMO” is uncommon English (frequency #50,427 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,427
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of collateralized mortgage obligation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cmo · CMO · English
CMO · rank #50,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,427
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH co's
Nearest frequency peer: co's (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “CMO”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chlorinated
chlorinated
49,577 corpus weight
- clubbed
clubbed
49,576 corpus weight
- CMO
CMO
49,574 corpus weight
- co's
co's
49,573 corpus weight
- coachman
coachman
49,572 corpus weight
- cocking
cocking
49,571 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “CMO” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CMO |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “CMO” in English
Rare enough to double-check
CMO is uncommon English at frequency #50,427 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
CMO has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is CMO, spelled C-M-O.
Definition
- 1Initialism of collateralized mortgage obligation.
- 2Initialism of civil-military operations (“a military activity”).
- 3Initialism of contract manufacturing organization.
- 4Initialism of chief marketing officer.
- 5Initialism of collective management organization.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CMO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unolab Manufacturing S.L., a Spanish CMO dedicated to the manufacture of sterile monodose parenteral products, offers its customers....
The panel examined how some of Africa’s leading CMOs are telling brand stories across the continent, during a period of seismic global change and a time when brands are prioritizing nurturing deep connections with their consumers.
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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