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harakat

noun

harakat is spelled H-A-R-A-K-A-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, harakat means “Diacritics marking short vowels in Arabic script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in harakat?

Letters7: H-A-R-A-K-A-T
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is harakat?

Harakat appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).

Forms of harakat

  • ḥarakāt

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does harakat mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Diacritics marking short vowels in Arabic script.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Harakat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Arabic diacritic – see also vocalization:

LanguageWords
Frenchharakat
GermanHarakat

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 harakat come from?

From Arabic حَرَكَات (ḥarakāt), plural of حَرَكَة (ḥaraka)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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