Eldar
"eldar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Eldar” is uncommon English (frequency #60,788 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,788
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An elf, one of a particular group of elves, or an elflike creature.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eldar · Eldar · English
Eldar · rank #60,788 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,788
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH eir
Nearest frequency peer: eir (-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 “Eldar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- egoism
egoism
39,216 corpus weight
- eigenvalue
eigenvalue
39,215 corpus weight
- eir
eir
39,214 corpus weight
- Eldar
Eldar
39,213 corpus weight
- elt
elt
39,212 corpus weight
- Englander
Englander
39,211 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Eldar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eldar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Eldar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Eldar is uncommon English at frequency #60,788 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Eldar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda. The correct English form is Eldar, spelled E-L-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1An elf, one of a particular group of elves, or an elflike creature.
- 2An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.
Etymology
Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda.
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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