sambar
"sambar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sambar” is uncommon English (frequency #86,717 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,717
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sambar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sambar” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sambar is uncommon English at frequency #86,717 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).".
sambar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”). The correct English form is sambar, spelled S-A-M-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”).
Synonyms
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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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Using “sambar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-M-B-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.