sare
"sare" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sare” is uncommon English (frequency #92,039 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,039
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dry, withered
Corpus desk
Index EN-sare · sare · English
sare · rank #92,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,039
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sapphic
Nearest frequency peer: Sapphic (-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 “sare”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- samphire
samphire
7,968 corpus weight
- sandpit
sandpit
7,965 corpus weight
- sangeet
sangeet
7,964 corpus weight
- Sapphic
Sapphic
7,963 corpus weight
- sare
sare
7,962 corpus weight
- sauced
sauced
7,959 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sare” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sare |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sare” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sare is uncommon English at frequency #92,039 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sare, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of sear (“dry”). The correct English form is sare, spelled S-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1dry, withered
- 2tender, rotten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;
Burn ash-wood sare, 'twool make a man sware.
Etymology
Variant of sear (“dry”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).