valor
/ˈvælɚ/
"valor" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“valor” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,695
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - US standard spelling of valour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-valor · valor · English
valor · rank #21,695 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,695
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Uzbekistan
Nearest frequency peer: Uzbekistan (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “valor”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- untitled
untitled
78,309 corpus weight
- UW
UW
78,308 corpus weight
- Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
78,307 corpus weight
- valor
valor
78,306 corpus weight
- vape
vape
78,305 corpus weight
- vernacular
vernacular
78,304 corpus weight
What this shows “valor” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | valor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvælɚ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “valor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around valor (IPA /ˈvælɚ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,695 among 969 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "US standard spelling of valour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for valor, with forms such as "avlor", "vallor", and "valorr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "VAR", "vor", "vlog", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is valor, spelled V-A-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1US standard spelling of valour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlor
- vallor
- valorr
- valro
- vaolr
- vlaor
- vvalor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valor - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "valor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).