2nd
/ˈsɛkənd/
"2nd" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“2nd” sits in 7 confusable pairs (corpus #1,851) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,851
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of second.
Corpus desk
Index EN-2nd · 2nd · English
2nd · rank #1,851 · 0 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,851
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "2" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH youth
Nearest frequency peer: youth (-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 “2nd”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- weapons
weapons
98,153 corpus weight
- yours
yours
98,152 corpus weight
- youth
youth
98,151 corpus weight
- 2nd
2nd
98,150 corpus weight
- appreciate
appreciate
98,149 corpus weight
- bigger
bigger
98,148 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “2nd” 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 | 2nd |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsɛkənd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “2nd”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 2nd is neighbouring look-alikes ("2p", "second", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈsɛkənd/. Frequency #1,851. Gloss: "Abbreviation of second.".
No misspelling variants are generated for 2nd in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "2p", "second", "2", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is 2nd, spelled 2-N-D.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of second.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 2nd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Formed in the 2nd Century BCE and composed of 23 city-states, the Lycian League was the world's first democratic union, a model of a strong confederacy based on popular and proportional representation.
This word in other languages
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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