Bakar
"bakar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bakar” is uncommon English (frequency #59,875 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,875
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bakar · Bakar · English
Bakar · rank #59,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,875
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bagram
Nearest frequency peer: Bagram (-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 “Bakar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- backhanded
backhanded
40,129 corpus weight
- backhoe
backhoe
40,128 corpus weight
- Bagram
Bagram
40,127 corpus weight
- Bakar
Bakar
40,126 corpus weight
- Balearic
Balearic
40,125 corpus weight
- Bandra
Bandra
40,123 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bakar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bakar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bakar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bakar is uncommon English at frequency #59,875 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia.".
Bakar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier Bukar, possibly derived from bukara (“wine jug”) due to the shape of the Bay of Bakar. Likely altered by folk etymology due to association with bakar (“copper”). The correct English form is Bakar, spelled B-A-K-A-R.
Definition
- 1A town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia.
Etymology
From earlier Bukar, possibly derived from bukara (“wine jug”) due to the shape of the Bay of Bakar. Likely altered by folk etymology due to association with bakar (“copper”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).