alvar
"alvar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alvar” is uncommon English (frequency #93,391 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,391
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A limestone pavement.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alvar · alvar · English
alvar · rank #93,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,391
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH allover
Nearest frequency peer: allover (-3 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 “alvar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aldebaran
Aldebaran
6,619 corpus weight
- allover
allover
6,613 corpus weight
- alvar
alvar
6,610 corpus weight
- Americus
Americus
6,607 corpus weight
- anciently
anciently
6,604 corpus weight
- anthill
anthill
6,602 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alvar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alvar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alvar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alvar is uncommon English at frequency #93,391 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A limestone pavement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alvar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Swedish alvar (“alvar”), from alv (“subsoil”). Possibly related to Old High German Alp (“alpine pasture; alp”). The correct English form is alvar, spelled A-L-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1A limestone pavement.
Etymology
From Swedish alvar (“alvar”), from alv (“subsoil”). Possibly related to Old High German Alp (“alpine pasture; alp”).
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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