ara
/ˈeɪ.ɹə/
"ara" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ara” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,997) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,997
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ara · ara · English
ara · rank #21,997 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,997
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aristocracy
Nearest frequency peer: aristocracy (+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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ara”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- antigen
antigen
78,007 corpus weight
- apostolic
apostolic
78,006 corpus weight
- ara
ara
78,004 corpus weight
- aristocracy
aristocracy
78,003 corpus weight
- armchair
armchair
78,002 corpus weight
- Aryan
Aryan
78,001 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ara” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | ara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeɪ.ɹə/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ara”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ara is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈeɪ.ɹə/. Frequency #21,997 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ara, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "aw", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Ara. The correct English form is ara, spelled A-R-A.
Definition
- 1The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).
Etymology
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Ara.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).