urs
"urs" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“urs” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,739) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,739
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
Corpus desk
Index EN-urs · urs · English
urs · rank #34,739 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,739
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unopposed
Nearest frequency peer: unopposed (-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 “urs”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- undersea
undersea
65,266 corpus weight
- unfiltered
unfiltered
65,265 corpus weight
- Unicode
Unicode
65,264 corpus weight
- unopposed
unopposed
65,263 corpus weight
- urs
urs
65,262 corpus weight
- vamp
vamp
65,260 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “urs” 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 | urs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “urs”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for urs is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "UT", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #34,739 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Gloss: "The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.".
urs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "UT", "UV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic عرس (ʕurs). The correct English form is urs, spelled U-R-S.
Definition
- 1The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عرس (ʕurs).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).