vare
/vɛə(ɹ)/noun
vare is a noun meaning “A wand or staff of authority or justice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-R-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vare is vares.
What does vare mean?
noun
- 1
A wand or staff of authority or justice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vare?
- /vɛə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vare.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vare
- vares plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vare?
Vare appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).
Where does vare come from?
Borrowed from Spanish vara (“staff, wand”), Latin vara (“forked pole”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).