nr
"nr" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,545) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,545
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of near.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nr · nr · English
nr · rank #16,545 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,545
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nielsen
Nearest frequency peer: Nielsen (-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 “nr”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- NGO
NGO
83,458 corpus weight
- Nielsen
Nielsen
83,457 corpus weight
- nr
nr
83,456 corpus weight
- nutshell
nutshell
83,455 corpus weight
- ob
ob
83,454 corpus weight
- obsessive
obsessive
83,453 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “nr” 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 | nr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #16,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “nr”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nr is neighbouring look-alikes ("NZ", "NT", …), not just typos; it is apreposition. Frequency #16,545 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of near.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nr, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NZ", "NT", "nu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is nr, spelled N-R.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of near.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bed + Cont Bkfst for Lesbians and Gay Men in a country village house 2 hrs fr Bos. Yr-round. Nr lakes, hikes, skiing.
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.