johar
/ˈdʒəʊhɑː/
"johar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“johar” is uncommon English (frequency #62,241 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,241
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-johar · johar · English
johar · rank #62,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,241
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH juts
Nearest frequency peer: juts (+4 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 “johar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- irredeemable
irredeemable
37,768 corpus weight
- johar
johar
37,760 corpus weight
- juts
juts
37,756 corpus weight
- Jäger
Jäger
37,755 corpus weight
- kaj
kaj
37,754 corpus weight
- Kapur
Kapur
37,753 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “johar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | johar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdʒəʊhɑː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “johar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
johar is uncommon English at frequency #62,241 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdʒəʊhɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for johar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is johar, spelled J-O-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how johar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Probably the most famous immolation of women was the johar, or mass suicide, at Fort Chittor in the thirteenth century, when the Rajput women in the fort were burned to avoid being captured by a licentious Mogul invader.
No flames here, though; the last ones were quenched over two hundred years ago when Rani Padmini and her women jumped into the johar fires the day Alauddin Khilji captured Chittor.
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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