cp
"cp" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cp” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,727) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,727
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of codepage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cp · cp · English
cp · rank #9,727 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,727
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH counselor
Nearest frequency peer: counselor (-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 “cp”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- copied
copied
90,276 corpus weight
- counselor
counselor
90,275 corpus weight
- cp
cp
90,274 corpus weight
- curb
curb
90,273 corpus weight
- dances
dances
90,272 corpus weight
- Darren
Darren
90,271 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “cp” 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 | cp |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “cp”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cp is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "CR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #9,727 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
cp doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "CR", "cs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cp, spelled C-P.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of codepage.
- 2A program and command in Unix that is used to copy files and directories from one location to another.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
cp437, cp737, cp1253, etc.
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.