Anbar
"anbar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anbar” is an uncommon English word, ranked #53,368 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #53,368
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A medieval town in Anbar Province, in modern-day central Iraq, now abandoned.
| 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) |
Where “Anbar” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Anbar is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #53,368 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Anbar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-B-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.