durbar
"durbar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“durbar” is uncommon English (frequency #74,047 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,047
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-durbar · durbar · English
durbar · rank #74,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Duracell
Nearest frequency peer: Duracell (-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 “durbar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- drow
drow
25,956 corpus weight
- Duracell
Duracell
25,955 corpus weight
- durbar
durbar
25,954 corpus weight
- Eakin
Eakin
25,953 corpus weight
- EBM
EBM
25,952 corpus weight
- ecclesiastic
ecclesiastic
25,951 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “durbar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durbar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “durbar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
durbar is uncommon English at frequency #74,047 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
durbar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindustani دربار / दरबार (darbār), in turn borrowed from Classical Persian دربار (darbār, “royal court”). The correct English form is durbar, spelled D-U-R-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India.
- 2An audience chamber.
- 3The body of officials at a royal or princely court in India.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durbar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.
A month after his retirement he was summoned to a durbar in Rangoon, to receive the decoration that had been awarded to him by the Indian Government.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani دربار / दरबार (darbār), in turn borrowed from Classical Persian دربار (darbār, “royal court”).
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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