tur
/tʊə/
"tur" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,138) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,138
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tur · tur · English
tur · rank #39,138 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,138
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tupperware
Nearest frequency peer: Tupperware (-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 “tur”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- trigonometry
trigonometry
60,866 corpus weight
- trimmings
trimmings
60,865 corpus weight
- Tupperware
Tupperware
60,864 corpus weight
- tur
tur
60,863 corpus weight
- tutelage
tutelage
60,862 corpus weight
- twos
twos
60,861 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “tur” 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 | tur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʊə/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “tur”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tur is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "TX", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tʊə/. Frequency #39,138 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "TX", "Ty", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus. The correct English form is tur, spelled T-U-R.
Definition
- 1Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.
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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