Wahhabi
"wahhabi" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wahhabi” is uncommon English (frequency #57,164 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,164
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).
| 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) |
Where “Wahhabi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wahhabi is uncommon English at frequency #57,164 among 12,113 “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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Using “Wahhabi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-H-H-A-B-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.