Wahhabi
"wahhabi" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wahhabi” is uncommon English (frequency #57,164 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,164
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).
Corpus desk
Index EN-wahhabi · Wahhabi · English
Wahhabi · rank #57,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,164
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Walsingham
Nearest frequency peer: Walsingham (+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 “Wahhabi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- vespers
vespers
42,841 corpus weight
- vilify
vilify
42,840 corpus weight
- virility
virility
42,839 corpus weight
- Wahhabi
Wahhabi
42,837 corpus weight
- Walsingham
Walsingham
42,836 corpus weight
- Wasatch
Wasatch
42,833 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Wahhabi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wahhabi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Wahhabi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Wahhabi is uncommon English at frequency #57,164 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wahhabi, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic وَهَّابِيّ (wahhābiyy, “Wahhabi”), ultimately named after Islam theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Equivalent to Wahhab + -i. The correct English form is Wahhabi, spelled W-A-H-H-A-B-I.
Definition
- 1An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَهَّابِيّ (wahhābiyy, “Wahhabi”), ultimately named after Islam theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Equivalent to Wahhab + -i.
This word in other languages
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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