valor
/ˈvælɚ/noun
valor is spelled V-A-L-O-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “valor vs valour” about 40 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, valor means “US standard spelling of valour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of valor is valors.
How many letters and syllables are in valor?
| Letters | 5: V-A-L-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is valor?
Valor appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce valor?
- US /ˈvælɚ/
Valor has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-valor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with valor
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: valour.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with valor?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as valor from its last stressed vowel (/æləɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: volar, roval.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of valor
- valors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does valor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USUS standard spelling of valour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).