Asmara
/æsˈmɑːɹə/
"asmara" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Asmara” is uncommon English (frequency #83,983 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,983
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Eritrea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-asmara · Asmara · English
Asmara · rank #83,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,983
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH askance
Nearest frequency peer: askance (-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 “Asmara”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- arithmetical
arithmetical
16,022 corpus weight
- Arminian
Arminian
16,021 corpus weight
- askance
askance
16,019 corpus weight
- Asmara
Asmara
16,018 corpus weight
- aspirate
aspirate
16,017 corpus weight
- Athelstan
Athelstan
16,015 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Asmara” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Asmara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /æsˈmɑːɹə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Asmara” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Asmara is uncommon English at frequency #83,983 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /æsˈmɑːɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Eritrea.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Asmara, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tigrinya ኣስመራ (ʾasmära). The correct English form is Asmara, spelled A-S-M-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Eritrea.
Etymology
From Tigrinya ኣስመራ (ʾasmära).
This word in other languages
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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