Rastafari
"rastafari" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rastafari” is uncommon English (frequency #82,708 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,708
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rastafarianism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rastafari · Rastafari · English
Rastafari · rank #82,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,708
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rapey
Nearest frequency peer: rapey (-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 “Rastafari”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- radian
radian
17,299 corpus weight
- railgun
railgun
17,296 corpus weight
- rangeland
rangeland
17,295 corpus weight
- rapey
rapey
17,294 corpus weight
- Rastafari
Rastafari
17,293 corpus weight
- ratu
ratu
17,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rastafari” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rastafari |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rastafari” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rastafari is uncommon English at frequency #82,708 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rastafarianism.".
Rastafari doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *raʔš- Amharic ራስ (ras) Amharic ተፈሪ (täfäri) English Rastafari From Amharic ራስ (ras, “Duke”, literally “head”) and ተፈሪ (täfäri, “revered”) from ተፈሪ መኮንን (täfäri mäkonn, “Haile Selassie”, literally “feared (son of) Makonnen”). Mo… The correct English form is Rastafari, spelled R-A-S-T-A-F-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Rastafarianism.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *raʔš- Amharic ራስ (ras) Amharic ተፈሪ (täfäri) English Rastafari From Amharic ራስ (ras, “Duke”, literally “head”) and ተፈሪ (täfäri, “revered”) from ተፈሪ መኮንን (täfäri mäkonn, “Haile Selassie”, literally “feared (son of) Makonnen”). More at Haile Selassie.
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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