hussar
/ˈhʌsə(ɹ)/
"hussar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hussar” is uncommon English (frequency #80,546 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,546
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of the national cavalry of Hungary, Croatia and Poland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hussar · hussar · English
hussar · rank #80,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,546
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hunny
Nearest frequency peer: hunny (-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 “hussar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- horsehair
horsehair
19,461 corpus weight
- Howitt
Howitt
19,460 corpus weight
- Hsia
Hsia
19,459 corpus weight
- hunny
hunny
19,456 corpus weight
- hussar
hussar
19,455 corpus weight
- iconoclasm
iconoclasm
19,452 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hussar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hussar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhʌsə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hussar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hussar is uncommon English at frequency #80,546 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhʌsə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for hussar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French hussard, from Hungarian huszár (“cavalryman”), from Serbo-Croatian gusar (“corsair”), from Byzantine Greek χωσάριος, χονσάριος (khōsários, khonsários) or from Italian corsaro (“corsair”), from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from L… The correct English form is hussar, spelled H-U-S-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1A member of the national cavalry of Hungary, Croatia and Poland.
- 2A member of the light cavalry of any of several European armies.
Etymology
Borrowed from French hussard, from Hungarian huszár (“cavalryman”), from Serbo-Croatian gusar (“corsair”), from Byzantine Greek χωσάριος, χονσάριος (khōsários, khonsários) or from Italian corsaro (“corsair”), from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“running”), from currō (“run”). Doublet of corsair and courser.
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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