blurs
/blɜːz/
"blurs" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blurs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,815
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of blur
Corpus desk
Index EN-blurs · blurs · English
blurs · rank #45,815 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,815
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bodice
Nearest frequency peer: bodice (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “blurs”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Bixby
Bixby
54,191 corpus weight
- BLE
BLE
54,190 corpus weight
- blurs
blurs
54,186 corpus weight
- bodice
bodice
54,184 corpus weight
- Bogdan
Bogdan
54,183 corpus weight
- bozo
bozo
54,182 corpus weight
What this shows “blurs” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | blurs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /blɜːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “blurs”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around blurs (IPA /blɜːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,815 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of blur".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for blurs, with forms such as "bblurs", "bllurs", and "blrus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bus", "bur", "burn", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is blurs, spelled B-L-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of blur
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblurs
- bllurs
- blrus
- blurrs
- blurss
- blusr
- bulrs
- lburs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blurs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).