Ishtar
"ishtar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ishtar” is uncommon English (frequency #51,186 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,186
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to...
Corpus desk
Index EN-ishtar · Ishtar · English
Ishtar · rank #51,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,186
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH Irani
Nearest frequency peer: Irani (-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 “Ishtar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- interventio…
interventional
48,818 corpus weight
- investigato…
investigatory
48,817 corpus weight
- Irani
Irani
48,816 corpus weight
- Ishtar
Ishtar
48,815 corpus weight
- ISRO
ISRO
48,814 corpus weight
- joyride
joyride
48,810 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ishtar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ishtar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ishtar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ishtar is uncommon English at frequency #51,186 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ishtar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar). Doublet of Astarte and Ashtoreth. Despite modern folk-etymology, not related in any way to English Easter. The correct English form is Ishtar, spelled I-S-H-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar). Doublet of Astarte and Ashtoreth. Despite modern folk-etymology, not related in any way to English Easter.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).