Sarah

//ˈsɛː.ɹə// name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,779

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Sarah is aSpanishname. It means: Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a Sara. Pronounced /ˈsɛː.ɹə/. It ranks #5,779 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sera and sura.

Key facts for Sarah
PropertyValue
HeadwordSarah
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA/ˈsɛː.ɹə/
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,779
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Sarah in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Sarah is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛː.ɹə/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,779 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a Sara.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sarah, with forms such as "asrah", "saarh", and "sarahh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sera", "sura", "Saya", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Sarah, spelled S-A-R-A-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a Sara.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asrah,saarh,sarahh,sarha,sarrah,sraah,ssarah

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sarah

Misspelling Variants of "Sarah"

asrah5saarh5sarahh6sarha5sarrah6sraah5ssarah6
Misspelling Variants of "Sarah"

Frequency rank: #5,779 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sarah"?
"Sarah" is spelled S-A-R-A-H. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈsɛː.ɹə/.
What does "Sarah" mean?
As a name, "Sarah" means: Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a Sara.
What words are commonly confused with "Sarah"?
"Sarah" is commonly confused with "sera", "sura", "Saya". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Sarah"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sarah" is /ˈsɛː.ɹə/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sarah" come from?
"Sarah" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.