bahar
/bəˈhɑː(ɹ)/
"bahar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bahar” is uncommon English (frequency #66,488 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,488
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the East Indies, of no single standard but rather of varying sizes sometimes termed little bahars and great bahars.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bahar · bahar · English
bahar · rank #66,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,488
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Balaji
Nearest frequency peer: Balaji (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “bahar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Avraham
Avraham
33,520 corpus weight
- Backstrom
Backstrom
33,517 corpus weight
- bahar
bahar
33,513 corpus weight
- Balaji
Balaji
33,511 corpus weight
- Barnhart
Barnhart
33,506 corpus weight
- barrowman
barrowman
33,505 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bahar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bahar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈhɑː(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bahar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bahar is uncommon English at frequency #66,488 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bəˈhɑː(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the East Indies, of no single standard but rather of varying sizes sometimes termed little bahars and great bahars.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bahar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Egyptian Arabic بهار (bahār) or other dialects, Arabic بُهَار (buhār). The correct English form is bahar, spelled B-A-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1A weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the East Indies, of no single standard but rather of varying sizes sometimes termed little bahars and great bahars.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bahar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
30 bahars of ivory
bahars of nutmeg
Etymology
From Egyptian Arabic بهار (bahār) or other dialects, Arabic بُهَار (buhār).
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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