rar
[ʁaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“rar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,390) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,390
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nur in geringer Anzahl vorhanden; nur in geringer Häufigkeit vorkommend
Corpus desk
Index DE-rar · rar · German
rar · rank #17,390 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,390
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rage
Nearest frequency peer: rage (-1 rank slots)
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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „rar“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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push
82,614 corpus weight
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Rabatte
82,613 corpus weight
- rage
rage
82,612 corpus weight
- rar
rar
82,611 corpus weight
- rbb
rbb
82,610 corpus weight
- rechtlicher
rechtlicher
82,609 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „rar“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | rar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʁaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „rar“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rar is neighbouring look-alikes ("re", "Rb", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ʁaːɐ̯]. Frequency #17,390 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "nur in geringer Anzahl vorhanden; nur in geringer Häufigkeit vorkommend".
No misspelling variants are generated for rar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "re", "Rb", "Rn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is rar, spelled R-A-R.
Definition
- 1nur in geringer Anzahl vorhanden; nur in geringer Häufigkeit vorkommend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Schwalbenschwanz ist ein rarer Schmetterling.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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