tsar
/(t)sɑɹ/noun
tsar is spelled T-S-A-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “czar vs tsar” about 1,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, tsar means “An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tsar is tsars; Wiktionary also lists tsari (rare).
How many letters and syllables are in tsar?
| Letters | 4: T-S-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tsar?
Tsar appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tsar?
- UK /(t)sɑː/
- UK /zɑː/
- US /(t)sɑɹ/
Tsar has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tsar.ogg, En-us-czar.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tsar
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: czar.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tsar?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tsar from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: star, arts, rats, sart.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tsar
- tsars plural
- tsari plural, rare
- czar
- tzar
- csar
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tsar mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
- 2
A person with great power; an autocrat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tsar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an emperor:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tsar come from?
Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Caesar and Kaiser. The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century. Compare Byzantine Greek Τζαῖσαρ (Tzaîsar).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).