Calabar
"calabar" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Calabar” is uncommon English (frequency #56,645 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,645
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-calabar · Calabar · English
Calabar · rank #56,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,645
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH calving
Nearest frequency peer: calving (+3 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 “Calabar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bucolic
bucolic
43,362 corpus weight
- Bure
Bure
43,360 corpus weight
- Calabar
Calabar
43,356 corpus weight
- calving
calving
43,353 corpus weight
- cantata
cantata
43,351 corpus weight
- Carli
Carli
43,350 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Calabar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Calabar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Calabar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Calabar is uncommon English at frequency #56,645 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.".
Calabar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Calabar, spelled C-A-L-A-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Calabar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Presbyterian Church of Scotland had established missions in Calabar in 1846, thirty years before Mary [Slessor] arrived.
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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