Jr
"jr" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,739) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,739
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jr · Jr · English
Jr · rank #2,739 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,739
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH joy
Nearest frequency peer: joy (-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 “Jr”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- headed
headed
97,265 corpus weight
- interior
interior
97,264 corpus weight
- joy
joy
97,263 corpus weight
- Jr
Jr
97,262 corpus weight
- legislation
legislation
97,261 corpus weight
- maintenance
maintenance
97,260 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Jr” 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 | Jr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Jr”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Jr is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ju", "JV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #2,739 among 796 “J” headwords. Gloss: "A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Jr, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ju", "JV", "JW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Abbreviation of junior. The correct English form is Jr, spelled J-R.
Definition
- 1A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.
Etymology
Abbreviation of junior.
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.