adar
\a.daʁ\
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
- Achéron
Achéron
2,382 corpus weight
- actuariat
actuariat
2,381 corpus weight
- adaptive
adaptive
2,380 corpus weight
- adar
adar
2,379 corpus weight
- addy
addy
2,377 corpus weight
- adhérences
adhérences
2,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.daʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adar » en français
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
- 1Sixième mois du calendrier hébreu.
- 2Le mois d’adar I pendant une année embolismique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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]
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.
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