farro
/ˈfæɹəʊ/
"farro" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“farro” is uncommon English (frequency #91,490 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,490
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
Corpus desk
Index EN-farro · farro · English
farro · rank #91,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,490
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH faller
Nearest frequency peer: faller (-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 “farro”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- eyeless
eyeless
8,520 corpus weight
- faired
faired
8,515 corpus weight
- faller
faller
8,514 corpus weight
- farro
farro
8,511 corpus weight
- feh
feh
8,508 corpus weight
- fennec
fennec
8,506 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “farro” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæɹəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “farro” in English
Rare enough to double-check
farro is uncommon English at frequency #91,490 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfæɹəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for farro in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian farro. Doublet of far. The correct English form is farro, spelled F-A-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how farro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At the Fountain restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel, near the institute, squab stuffed with fava beans and farro, an Egyptian grain, comes gilded with gold leaf[…].
All three farros are sold as a whole grain.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian farro. Doublet of far.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).