Adar
"adar" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adar” is uncommon English (frequency #90,113 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,113
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adar · Adar · English
Adar · rank #90,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,113
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Adebayo
Nearest frequency peer: Adebayo (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Adar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abraxas
abraxas
9,893 corpus weight
- Adar
Adar
9,888 corpus weight
- Adebayo
Adebayo
9,887 corpus weight
- adjudicators
adjudicators
9,886 corpus weight
- adulteress
adulteress
9,884 corpus weight
- Akbari
Akbari
9,882 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Adar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Adar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Adar is uncommon English at frequency #90,113 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Adar, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew אֲדָר (adár). Doublet of Addaru. The correct English form is Adar, spelled A-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan.
Etymology
From Hebrew אֲדָר (adár). Doublet of Addaru.
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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