Anbar
"anbar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anbar” is uncommon English (frequency #53,368 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,368
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A medieval town in Anbar Province, in modern-day central Iraq, now abandoned.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anbar · Anbar · English
Anbar · rank #53,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,368
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Altair
Nearest frequency peer: Altair (-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 “Anbar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Akita
Akita
46,638 corpus weight
- Aloysius
Aloysius
46,635 corpus weight
- Altair
Altair
46,634 corpus weight
- Anbar
Anbar
46,633 corpus weight
- Anglian
Anglian
46,632 corpus weight
- annul
annul
46,630 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Anbar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anbar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Anbar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Anbar is uncommon English at frequency #53,368 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A medieval town in Anbar Province, in modern-day central Iraq, now abandoned.".
Anbar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic اَلْأَنْبَار (al-ʔanbār), from Middle Persian [Term?]. See Persian انبار (anbâr) for more. Doublet of sambar. The correct English form is Anbar, spelled A-N-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1A medieval town in Anbar Province, in modern-day central Iraq, now abandoned.
Etymology
From Arabic اَلْأَنْبَار (al-ʔanbār), from Middle Persian [Term?]. See Persian انبار (anbâr) for more. Doublet of sambar.
Synonyms
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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