Dr
"dr" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dr” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #570 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #570
- frequency rank, English
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Doctor, a title used before a doctor's name or surname (Dr Jane Doe, Dr Doe)
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 | Dr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dr” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Dr is 2 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #570 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for Dr in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DS", "DT", "dw", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Dr, spelled D-R.
Definition
- 1Doctor, a title used before a doctor's name or surname (Dr Jane Doe, Dr Doe)
- 2drive, used in street names
- 3debit
- 4debitor
- 5Abbreviation of drums (of a rock band)
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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Using “Dr”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “DS” - see the side-by-side comparison. Dr vs DS
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.