Zacharias
"zacharias" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zacharias” is uncommon English (frequency #59,138 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,138
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of Zechariah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zacharias · Zacharias · English
Zacharias · rank #59,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,138
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH yume
Nearest frequency peer: yume (-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 “Zacharias”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- yippee
yippee
40,867 corpus weight
- your's
your's
40,866 corpus weight
- yume
yume
40,864 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
40,863 corpus weight
- zesty
zesty
40,861 corpus weight
- zooplankton
zooplankton
40,859 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Zacharias” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zacharias |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Zacharias” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Zacharias is uncommon English at frequency #59,138 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zacharias, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”). Compare Zachariah and Zechariah. The correct English form is Zacharias, spelled Z-A-C-H-A-R-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of Zechariah.
- 2A male given name from Hebrew.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”). Compare Zachariah and Zechariah.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).