rr
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "rr", 2-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "rr" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "rr" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
RR is aEnglishnoun. It means: Initialism of railroad. Often confused with RS and RT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | RR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #17,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for RR is 2 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #17,232 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for RR in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RS", "RT", "RV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is RR, spelled R-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Initialism of railroad.
- 2Initialism of road race.
- 3Abbreviation of rear, where brevity is desired.
- 4Initialism of right rear, a location in a square or rectangular layout such as the tires on an automobile or the heating elements on a stovetop.
- 5Initialism of Rolls-Royce.
- 6Initialism of reverse racism.
- 7Initialism of real reality.
- 8Initialism of relative risk.
- 9Initialism of rural route used when addressing mail.
- 10Initialism of Riva-Roccin, a blood pressure measurer device.
- 11Initialism of role reversal.
- 12Initialism of resource record.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #17,232 in English
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