IVR
"ivr" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“IVR” is uncommon English (frequency #73,311 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,311
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of Interactive voice response.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ivr · IVR · English
IVR · rank #73,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,311
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,902
- PHOTO-FINISH itsy
Nearest frequency peer: itsy (-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 neighbourhood for “IVR”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- interactive…
interactively
26,700 corpus weight
- IPV
IPV
26,696 corpus weight
- ironwork
ironwork
26,695 corpus weight
- itsy
itsy
26,691 corpus weight
- IVR
IVR
26,690 corpus weight
- jiggy
jiggy
26,682 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “IVR” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IVR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #73,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “IVR” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
IVR is uncommon English at frequency #73,311 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for IVR, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is IVR, spelled I-V-R.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Interactive voice response.
- 2Initialism of interventional radiology.
- 3Initialism of international vehicle registration.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.