GR
"gr" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,551) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,551
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of glucocorticoid receptor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gr · GR · English
GR · rank #14,551 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,551
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gotham
Nearest frequency peer: Gotham (-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 “GR”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- FYI
FYI
85,453 corpus weight
- Gareth
Gareth
85,452 corpus weight
- Gotham
Gotham
85,451 corpus weight
- GR
GR
85,450 corpus weight
- grouped
grouped
85,449 corpus weight
- halted
halted
85,448 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “GR” 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 | GR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “GR”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GR is neighbouring look-alikes ("GS", "GU", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #14,551 among 2,313 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for GR, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GS", "GU", "guy", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is GR, spelled G-R.
Definition
- 1Initialism of glucocorticoid receptor.
- 2Initialism of general relativity.
- 3Initialism of games record.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2001 Nussey, S. S. and Whitehead, S. A. The adrenal gland. In: Bosher, Andrea. Endocrinology: An Integrated Approach. Oxford, UK: BIOS Scientific Publishers; 2001 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=endocrin&part=A442#A468 . The expression of GR is ubiquitous and it occurs in two forms, GR-α and GR-β.
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.