Hadar
"hadar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hadar” is uncommon English (frequency #82,361 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,361
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The second brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus, Beta Centauri
Corpus desk
Index EN-hadar · Hadar · English
Hadar · rank #82,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,361
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH guv
Nearest frequency peer: guv (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Hadar”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gullibility
gullibility
17,644 corpus weight
- gumshoe
gumshoe
17,643 corpus weight
- guv
guv
17,642 corpus weight
- Hadar
Hadar
17,640 corpus weight
- haemophilia
haemophilia
17,638 corpus weight
- haemorrhagic
haemorrhagic
17,637 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Hadar” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hadar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hadar” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hadar is uncommon English at frequency #82,361 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The second brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus, Beta Centauri".
Hadar has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic حضار. In Star-Names and Their Meanings, Richard Hinckley Allen writes, "Ḥḍar and Wazn, Ground and Weight, seem to have been applied without much definiteness to α and β of this constellation, and to stars in Argo, Columba, and Canis Major, proba… The correct English form is Hadar, spelled H-A-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1The second brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus, Beta Centauri
Etymology
From Arabic حضار. In Star-Names and Their Meanings, Richard Hinckley Allen writes, "Ḥḍar and Wazn, Ground and Weight, seem to have been applied without much definiteness to α and β of this constellation, and to stars in Argo, Columba, and Canis Major, probably on account of their proximity to the horizon; the meridian altitude of β, 1000 years ago at Cairo, is 30° of north latitude, being only 4°. Hyde, however, said that α and γ were the stars referred to by these Arabic titles." However, the word حضار does not normally mean "ground" but settled land.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.