org
"org" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“org” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,973) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,973
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of organization.
Corpus desk
Index EN-org · org · English
org · rank #13,973 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,973
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oneself
Nearest frequency peer: oneself (-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 “org”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- om
om
86,031 corpus weight
- onboard
onboard
86,030 corpus weight
- oneself
oneself
86,029 corpus weight
- org
org
86,028 corpus weight
- outsider
outsider
86,027 corpus weight
- overcoming
overcoming
86,026 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “org” 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 | org |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “org”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for org is neighbouring look-alikes ("OS", "oz", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #13,973 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Clipping of organization.".
No misspelling variants are generated for org in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "OS", "oz", "OT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is org, spelled O-R-G.
Definition
- 1Clipping of organization.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how org appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Joaquin shared that most Ateneans would hang out at MVP Building, which houses the majority of the organizations in the Ateneo. Here, org members plan org events or simply make friends with other students or seek tips from the upperclassmen.
“Fascists need to crush civil society orgs because they are a bulwark of liberalism. They democratize access to power and institutions while defending civil liberties,” Caraballo said on Bluesky.
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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