fakir
/fəˈkiɹ/
"fakir" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fakir” is uncommon English (frequency #77,665 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,665
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fakir · fakir · English
fakir · rank #77,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,665
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fakery
Nearest frequency peer: fakery (-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 “fakir”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- excommunica…
excommunicate
22,341 corpus weight
- eyelet
eyelet
22,340 corpus weight
- Fabienne
Fabienne
22,338 corpus weight
- fakery
fakery
22,337 corpus weight
- fakir
fakir
22,336 corpus weight
- fanatically
fanatically
22,334 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fakir” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fakir |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fəˈkiɹ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fakir” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fakir is uncommon English at frequency #77,665 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fəˈkiɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fakir, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”). The correct English form is fakir, spelled F-A-K-I-R.
Definition
- 1A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
- 2An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
- 3Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fakir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
He denounces no one until he has all the damaging facts in hand, very frequently backed up with affidavits. He 'Lawsonized' certain stock jobbers and financial fakirs of London before the Boston advertising man was heard of.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
This word in other languages
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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