Safar
"safar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Safar” is uncommon English (frequency #83,703 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,703
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The second month of the Islamic calendar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-safar · Safar · English
Safar · rank #83,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,703
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sackcloth
Nearest frequency peer: sackcloth (-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 “Safar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rutherglen
Rutherglen
16,303 corpus weight
- Rydberg
Rydberg
16,302 corpus weight
- sackcloth
sackcloth
16,299 corpus weight
- Safar
Safar
16,298 corpus weight
- Samburu
Samburu
16,296 corpus weight
- sandlot
sandlot
16,293 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Safar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Safar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Safar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Safar is uncommon English at frequency #83,703 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Safar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic صَفَر (ṣafar), from صَفِرَ (ṣafira, “to be empty”). The correct English form is Safar, spelled S-A-F-A-R.
Definition
- 1The second month of the Islamic calendar.
- 2A surname, potentially of German or Arabic origin
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صَفَر (ṣafar), from صَفِرَ (ṣafira, “to be empty”).
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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