menorah
/mɪˈnɔːɹə/
"menorah" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“menorah” is uncommon English (frequency #59,546 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,546
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem.
Corpus desk
Index EN-menorah · menorah · English
menorah · rank #59,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,546
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH melamine
Nearest frequency peer: melamine (-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 “menorah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- meatless
meatless
40,460 corpus weight
- Medellín
Medellín
40,458 corpus weight
- melamine
melamine
40,456 corpus weight
- menorah
menorah
40,455 corpus weight
- microbiolog…
microbiologist
40,453 corpus weight
- minibar
minibar
40,452 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “menorah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menorah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɪˈnɔːɹə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “menorah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
menorah is uncommon English at frequency #59,546 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɪˈnɔːɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
menorah has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew מְנוֹרָה (m'norá). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as minaret. The correct English form is menorah, spelled M-E-N-O-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem.
- 2A candelabrum with nine branches, used in Jewish worship on Hanukkah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menorah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘Heathen muck,’ Liberalis said, as the pillaging began. The veil of the Temple was rent. The great menorah was taken away.
My father brings home a big brass antique menorah, shaped like an archway, heavy, on a pedestal, on a round base.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew מְנוֹרָה (m'norá). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as minaret.
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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