sry
"sry" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sry” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,505) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,505
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of sorry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sry · sry · English
sry · rank #48,505 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,505
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Srinivasan
Nearest frequency peer: Srinivasan (-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 “sry”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Spenser
Spenser
51,499 corpus weight
- spiritualism
spiritualism
51,498 corpus weight
- Srinivasan
Srinivasan
51,497 corpus weight
- sry
sry
51,496 corpus weight
- staccato
staccato
51,495 corpus weight
- staid
staid
51,494 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “sry” 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 | sry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “sry”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sry is neighbouring look-alikes ("SS", "su", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #48,505 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of sorry.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sry in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SS", "su", "SW", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sry, spelled S-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of sorry.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
sry 2 leave u out, but this was 2 good 2 pass up.
look im sry about playing ahead
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).