ghazal
/ˈɡæzæl/
"ghazal" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ghazal” is uncommon English (frequency #74,120 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,120
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ghazal · ghazal · English
ghazal · rank #74,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,120
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH GGS
Nearest frequency peer: GGS (-1 rank slots)
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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 “ghazal”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- garnishment
garnishment
25,886 corpus weight
- gazzetta
gazzetta
25,884 corpus weight
- GGS
GGS
25,882 corpus weight
- ghazal
ghazal
25,881 corpus weight
- Giraud
Giraud
25,877 corpus weight
- glassman
glassman
25,876 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ghazal” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ghazal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæzæl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ghazal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ghazal is uncommon English at frequency #74,120 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡæzæl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ghazal in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”). The correct English form is ghazal, spelled G-H-A-Z-A-L.
Definition
- 1A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ghazal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.
A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).
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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