rare

adjective/rɛr/

Frequency rank: #1,312 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Not happening or found very often; unusual.

Illustration for the English word “rare”

Example sentence

This butterfly is so beautiful because it is very rare and hard to find.

Synonyms & related words

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