Baar
"baar" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Baar” is uncommon English (frequency #76,553 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,553
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baar · Baar · English
Baar · rank #76,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,553
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Avoca
Nearest frequency peer: Avoca (-1 rank slots)
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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 neighbourhood for “Baar”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “Baar” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Baar” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Baar is uncommon English at frequency #76,553 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Baar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a German surname, variant of Bahr, or from the placenames Baar, Swabia or Baar, Rhineland-Palatinate. * As a Dutch surname (Van Baar), from the placename Baar, a village near Angerlo or the hamlet near Wehl, both in Gelderland province. * Also as a Dut… The correct English form is Baar, spelled B-A-A-R.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As a German surname, variant of Bahr, or from the placenames Baar, Swabia or Baar, Rhineland-Palatinate. * As a Dutch surname (Van Baar), from the placename Baar, a village near Angerlo or the hamlet near Wehl, both in Gelderland province. * Also as a Dutch surname (De Baar), from the rare adjective baar (“bare”), from Middle Dutch bāer, from Old Dutch *bar. * As a Czech surname, short form of Bartoloměj. Compare Bartholomew.
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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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.