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ars

noun

ars is spelled A-R-S: 3 letters. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory noun, ars means “Mizrahi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ars is arsim.

How many letters and syllables are in ars?

Letters3: A-R-S
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is ars?

Ars appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with ars?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ars.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ras, asr.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of ars

  • arsim plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does ars mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryMizrahi

  2. 2

    plural of ar (a form of ar)

noun

as ARS
  1. 1

    Initialism of acute radiation syndrome.

  2. 2

    Initialism of acute retroviral syndrome.

noun

as Ars
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of ars.

noun

as ARs
  1. 1

    plural of AR (a form of AR)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does ars come from?

For the sense of "Mizrahi person", Arabic عرص (“a shepherd”), which became an Arabic slang word referring to pimps who "shepherd" prostitutes. This term was influenced by stereotypes of Mizrahi Jews as crude and aggressive, later used by an Israeli subculture. Not related to the vulgar word arse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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