Zohar
"zohar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zohar” is uncommon English (frequency #63,392 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,392
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zohar · Zohar · English
Zohar · rank #63,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,392
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH Zhivago
Nearest frequency peer: Zhivago (-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 “Zohar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yukio
Yukio
36,613 corpus weight
- zai
zai
36,612 corpus weight
- ZF
ZF
36,611 corpus weight
- Zhivago
Zhivago
36,610 corpus weight
- Zohar
Zohar
36,609 corpus weight
- zygote
zygote
36,608 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Zohar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zohar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Zohar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Zohar is uncommon English at frequency #63,392 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Zohar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew זֹהַר (“splendor, radiance”). The correct English form is Zohar, spelled Z-O-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew זֹהַר (“splendor, radiance”).
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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