adar

\a.daʁ\

/\a.daʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“adar” is uncommon French (frequency #97,622 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#97,622
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sixième mois du calendrier hébreu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adar · adar · French

adar · rank #97,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #97,622
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adaptive

Nearest frequency peer: adaptive (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « adar »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for adar
PropertyValue
Headwordadar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.daʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#97,622
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « adar » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).adartombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « adaptive » (#97,621), « actuariat » (#97,620), « addy » (#97,624). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adar » est au #97,622. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adar is uncommon French at frequency #97,622 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.daʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

adar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is adar, spelled A-D-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sixième mois du calendrier hébreu.
  2. 2
    Le mois d’adar I pendant une année embolismique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how adar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Concordance des calendriers dans l’année grégorienne 1879. […] [jour de la semaine, calendrier grégorien, julien, républicain, israélite, musulman] […] Ven. 0 Mars 1879 16 Févr. [1879] 9 Ventôse [87] 5 Adar [5639] 6 Rébi Iᵉʳ [1296]
  2. C’est ainsi que, le 21 adar 4996 (1236), un pêcheur chrétien étant mort des coups que lui avait portés un juif au cours d’une rixe, la foule envahit la juiverie vicomtale, avec l’intention de la mettre à sac.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adar"?
"adar" is spelled A-D-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.daʁ\.
What does "adar" mean?
As a noun, "adar" means: Sixième mois du calendrier hébreu.
How do you pronounce "adar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adar" is \a.daʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adar" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list