Gemara
"gemara" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gemara” is uncommon English (frequency #94,890 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,890
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gemara · Gemara · English
Gemara · rank #94,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,890
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gibbet
Nearest frequency peer: gibbet (+4 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 “Gemara”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gascoyne
gascoyne
5,120 corpus weight
- gasper
gasper
5,119 corpus weight
- gastropod
gastropod
5,118 corpus weight
- Gemara
Gemara
5,111 corpus weight
- gibbet
gibbet
5,107 corpus weight
- Girvan
Girvan
5,103 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gemara” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gemara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gemara” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gemara is uncommon English at frequency #94,890 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gemara in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Aramaic גמרא. The correct English form is Gemara, spelled G-E-M-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.
Etymology
From Aramaic גמרא.
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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