Samarra
"samarra" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Samarra” is uncommon English (frequency #66,259 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,259
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-samarra · Samarra · English
Samarra · rank #66,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,259
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Safi
Nearest frequency peer: Safi (-2 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 “Samarra”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Roxana
Roxana
33,749 corpus weight
- Safi
Safi
33,744 corpus weight
- Samarra
Samarra
33,742 corpus weight
- sandbar
sandbar
33,739 corpus weight
- sapa
sapa
33,738 corpus weight
- Sayyid
Sayyid
33,736 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Samarra” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samarra |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Samarra” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Samarra is uncommon English at frequency #66,259 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.".
Samarra doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic سَامَرَّاء (sāmarrāʔ). The correct English form is Samarra, spelled S-A-M-A-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَامَرَّاء (sāmarrāʔ).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).