hussar
/ˈhʌsə(ɹ)/
"hussar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hussar” is uncommon English (frequency #80,546 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,546
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of the national cavalry of Hungary, Croatia and Poland.
| 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) |
Where “hussar” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hussar is uncommon English at frequency #80,546 among 23,837 “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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-U-S-S-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.