kor
"kor" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,008) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,008
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kor · kor · English
kor · rank #38,008 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,008
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Krugman
Nearest frequency peer: Krugman (+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 “kor”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Kinsey
Kinsey
61,997 corpus weight
- Kirkwood
Kirkwood
61,996 corpus weight
- knockdown
knockdown
61,995 corpus weight
- kor
kor
61,993 corpus weight
- Krugman
Krugman
61,992 corpus weight
- lapis
lapis
61,989 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “kor” 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 | kor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “kor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kor is neighbouring look-alikes ("ky", "Ku", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #38,008 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.".
kor has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ky", "Ku", "KS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr). The correct English form is kor, spelled K-O-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Solomon responded by committing 20,000 kors of pure oil and 20,000 kors of wheat in annual payments. A kor of oil is an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid of about 58 gallons. A kor of wheat is equal to 6.25 bushels.
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).