br
"br" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“br” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,393) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,393
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of brr (“expressing cold and shivering”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-br · br · English
br · rank #8,393 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,393
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH biography
Nearest frequency peer: biography (-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 “br”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- bastard
bastard
91,612 corpus weight
- biography
biography
91,609 corpus weight
- br
br
91,608 corpus weight
- broker
broker
91,607 corpus weight
- browser
browser
91,606 corpus weight
- bury
bury
91,605 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “br” 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 | br |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “br”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for br is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BS", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #8,393 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative form of brr (“expressing cold and shivering”).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for br, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BS", "Bt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is br, spelled B-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of brr (“expressing cold and shivering”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how br appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
FORTUNATO - Br... Br... It's cold... (Looks for towel.) Don't you want to freshen up a little? / PHYLLIS (without turning) No thanks. / FORTUNATO - I will not look. I'll admire the view from the window ... Like you ... (slapping his chest)[…]
Br - I'm cold, friend. Why don't you make up a fire to warm us all?
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.