coz
/kʌz/
"coz" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,792) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,792
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cousin (usually as a term of address)
Corpus desk
Index EN-coz · coz · English
coz · rank #23,792 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,792
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH corrugated
Nearest frequency peer: corrugated (-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 “coz”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- contrived
contrived
76,212 corpus weight
- corolla
corolla
76,211 corpus weight
- corrugated
corrugated
76,210 corpus weight
- coz
coz
76,209 corpus weight
- cranky
cranky
76,208 corpus weight
- crept
crept
76,207 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “coz” 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 | coz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌz/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “coz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for coz is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "CR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kʌz/. Frequency #23,792 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Gloss: "cousin (usually as a term of address)".
coz has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "CR", "cs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is coz, spelled C-O-Z.
Definition
- 1cousin (usually as a term of address)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.
1844, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "The Love Quarrel", in The Columbian Magazine Vol 1. Issue 1. page 6, col. 2, New York, Israel Post, ed John Inman "I do not expect that, coz; nor do I desire it."
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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