USAR
/ˈju.sɑɹ/
"usar" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“USAR” is uncommon English (frequency #82,892 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,892
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of United States Army Reserve.
Corpus desk
Index EN-usar · USAR · English
USAR · rank #82,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,892
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH Ushuaia
Nearest frequency peer: Ushuaia (+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 “USAR”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unpromising
unpromising
17,114 corpus weight
- unscrewed
unscrewed
17,113 corpus weight
- unspectacul…
unspectacular
17,112 corpus weight
- USAR
USAR
17,109 corpus weight
- Ushuaia
Ushuaia
17,108 corpus weight
- Vani
Vani
17,105 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “USAR” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | USAR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈju.sɑɹ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “USAR” in English
Rare enough to double-check
USAR is uncommon English at frequency #82,892 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈju.sɑɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of United States Army Reserve.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for USAR, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is USAR, spelled U-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Initialism of United States Army Reserve.
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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