hazan
"hazan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hazan” is uncommon English (frequency #99,347 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,347
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of hazzan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hazan · hazan · English
hazan · rank #99,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Havant
Nearest frequency peer: Havant (-1 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 “hazan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- harissa
harissa
658 corpus weight
- Hassel
Hassel
656 corpus weight
- Havant
Havant
655 corpus weight
- hazan
hazan
654 corpus weight
- HBOS
HBOS
652 corpus weight
- heatedly
heatedly
651 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hazan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hazan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hazan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hazan is uncommon English at frequency #99,347 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of hazzan.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hazan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hazan, spelled H-A-Z-A-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of hazzan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hazan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When George Washington was inaugurated in New York in April 1789, Gershom Seixas, the hazan of Shearith Israel, was listed among the city’s clergymen (there were 14 in New York at the time) — a sign of acceptance and respect.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).