madrassa
"madrassa" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“madrassa” is uncommon English (frequency #96,184 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,184
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of madrasah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-madrassa · madrassa · English
madrassa · rank #96,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,184
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mahr
Nearest frequency peer: mahr (+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 “madrassa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- MacMurray
MacMurray
3,819 corpus weight
- madrassa
madrassa
3,817 corpus weight
- mahr
mahr
3,816 corpus weight
- maken
maken
3,815 corpus weight
- Maley
Maley
3,814 corpus weight
- mallam
mallam
3,813 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “madrassa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madrassa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “madrassa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
madrassa is uncommon English at frequency #96,184 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of madrasah.".
No misspelling variants are generated for madrassa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is madrassa, spelled M-A-D-R-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of madrasah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how madrassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sultan's men got the message: he and his successors exiled out-of-favour amirs to Jerusalem where they were expected to spend their ill-gotten wealth on sumptuous complexes that contained palaces, madrassas and tombs.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).