far
/fɑɹ/adjective, adverb, verb, noun
far is spelled F-A-R: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 316 times per million words in written English, the 298th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, far means “Distant; remote in space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in far?
| Letters | 3: F-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 316 times per million words; the 298th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is far?
Far appears 316 times per million words in written English, the 298th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce far?
- UK /fɑː/
- US /fɑɹ/
- Australia /fɐː/
Far has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-far.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-far.wav, En-us-far.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with far?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as far from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: fra, arf.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of far
- farther comparative
- further comparative
- farthest superlative
- furthest superlative
- farthermost superlative
- furthermost superlative
- fars present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- farring participle, present
- farred participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does far mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Distant; remote in space.
He went to a far land.
- 2
Remote in time.
the far far future
- 3
Long.
- 4
More remote of two.
See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
- 5
Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
They are on the far right on this issue.
- 6
Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
- 7
Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
far heap; far memory; far pointer
adverb
- 1
To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
You have all come far and you will go further.
- 2
Very much; by a great amount.
He was far richer than we'd thought.
noun
- 1
Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
- 2
UKA litter of piglets; a farrow.
noun
- 1
Initialism of floor area ratio.
verb
- 1
rareTo send far away.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Far in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lointain, éloigné, reculé , extrême , loin |
| German | fern, weit entfernt, weit weg , entfernt, weit |
| Portuguese | longe, distante , extremo, extrema |
| Spanish | lejano, ulterior, postrero, postrer, postrimero, postremero |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does far come from?
Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).