mahr
"mahr" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mahr” is uncommon English (frequency #96,185 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,185
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mandatory gift from the groom (or his family) to the bride (or her family) upon marriage in Islamic cultures.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mahr · mahr · English
mahr · rank #96,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,185
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH madrassa
Nearest frequency peer: madrassa (-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 “mahr”
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 “mahr” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mahr” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mahr is uncommon English at frequency #96,185 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A mandatory gift from the groom (or his family) to the bride (or her family) upon marriage in Islamic cultures.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mahr in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic مَهْر (mahr). The correct English form is mahr, spelled M-A-H-R.
Definition
- 1A mandatory gift from the groom (or his family) to the bride (or her family) upon marriage in Islamic cultures.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَهْر (mahr).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).