r's
"r-s" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“r's” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,861) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,861
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of r
Corpus desk
Index EN-r-s · r's · English
r's · rank #40,861 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,861
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH quarrying
Nearest frequency peer: quarrying (-2 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 “r's”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pygmy
pygmy
59,145 corpus weight
- quakes
quakes
59,143 corpus weight
- quarrying
quarrying
59,142 corpus weight
- r's
r's
59,140 corpus weight
- rada
rada
59,138 corpus weight
- Raines
Raines
59,137 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “r's” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | r's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “r's” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for r's is neighbouring look-alikes ("re", "RS", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #40,861 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Gloss: "plural of r".
No misspelling variants are generated for r's in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "re", "RS", "rd", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is r's, spelled R-'-S.
Definition
- 1plural of r
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how r's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] my nerves were shattered by a blatant exhorter, […] who insisted on his r’s with a nasal persistence which revolted my every instinct. […] I believe the minister was a good man, but when he bellowed: “And the Lorrrd said unto Moses, the Lorrrd is a man of war; the Lorrrd is his name. My wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with the sworrrd!”. I won…
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "r's" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "re". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #40,861 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.