Rare

Definition: Rare

Rare

Adjective

1. Not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books".

2. Recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events".

3. Not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of gree in the desert".

4. Marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree".

5. Having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air".

6. (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast beef".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Personal Care & Hotels

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

RARE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Rare

Fewness

Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.

Frequency

Adjective: frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated; customary; (habit); regular (normal); according to rule; (conformable).

Importance

In the front rank, first-rate; superior; considerable; (great); marked; Verb: rare.

Improbability

Rare; (infrequent); unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable).

Inexpedience

Best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superlatively; good; bully, crackajack, giltedged; superfine,

Infrequency

Verb: be rare; Adjective:

Adjective: unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience; not since Adam.

Nonimitation

Adjective: unimitated, uncopied; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon, unexampled.

Physical Inertness

Rare gas, paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity.

Rarity

Adjective: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light; cavernous, spongy. (hollow).

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Crosswords: Rare

Dutch (strange), French (infrequent, oddball, precious, rare, rarely, scarce, thin, tight, uncommon, unfrequent, unusual, unusually), Latin (rarely, thinly, uncommonly), Occitan (rare).

So rare to capture one alive (The Silence of the Lambs; writing credit: Ted Tally)

That is good, for believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days - a martyr's death (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Niel, it's very rare that you interest me but today you have (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

I have had a most rare vision (A Midsummer Night's Dream; writing credit: Charles Kenyon; Mary C. McCall Jr.)

A farmer may become a hunchback but it's rare for a hunchback to become a farmer (Jean de Florette; writing credit: Claude Berri; Gérard Brach)

I love you Peggy Sue, with a love so rare and true ("Peggy Sue"; performing artist: Buddy Holly)

Clair, if ever a moment so rare (Clair; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare (Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

And a rare, exotic mystery at night (ANOTHER NIGHT IN TUNISIA; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

And though my love is rare (I'm Like A Bird; performing artist: Nelly Furtado)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (references; author: Mark Twain)

True friends are like diamonds: precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves: scattered everywhere. (references; author: unknown)

Friendship is a golden chain, the links are friends so dear; and like a rare and precious jewel, it's treasured more each year. (references; author: unknown)

L' Oiseau rare (1973)

De Rare vogels (1969)

The Rare Breed (1966)

Un oiseau rare (1935)

Rare Auto and Travel Thrills (1933)

So Rare (performing artist: Jimmy Dorsey)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Hydrogen, Rare Gases, Nitrogen, and Oxygen: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Best Buys in Rare Coins: What Expert Dealers and Collectors Advise (reference)

• Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows and Related Electromagnetic Phenomena: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies (reference)

• The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin being the al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya as'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya of Baha' aDin Ibn Shaddad (Crusade Texts in Translation) (reference)

• 21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Rare Cancers (Pheochromocytoma, Adrenocortical Carcinoma, Parathyroid Cancer, Malignant Thymoma, Extracranial Germ Cell Tumor, Extragonadal Germ Cell, Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor) - Authoritative Government Docum (reference)

• Capablanca: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, Illustrations and Other Rare Archival Materials on the Cuban Chess Genius Jose R (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Book Prices Used And Rare (reference)

• Caf Directory Of Specific Conditions & Rare Syndromes In Chi (reference)

• California Rare Fruit Growers Membership - Golden Gate Chapter (reference)

• Journal Of Rare Earth (reference)

• Physicians Guide To Rare Diseases (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Chet Atkins - Rare Performances 1955-75 (reference)

• Deep Purple - New, Live and Rare (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Heifetz: Never-Released & Rare Live Recordings, Vol. 1 (reference)

• Rare Violin Transcriptions (reference)

• Stairway to the Stars: Live & Rare (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tasco 10x42mm Rare Bird Binocular (reference)

• Tasco 9x25mm Rare Bird Binocular (reference)

• Tasco 8x40mm Rare Bird Gift Kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Stabila 25100H 10" Die-Cast Rare Earth Magnetic Level with Holster (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Thia patient with congenital syphilis is exhibiting rhagades, which are cracks or fissures in the skin around the mouth. Such a rare type of facial disfigurement, results from persistent infantile syphilitic rhinitis. Credit: CDC.

This is a photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum stained with Gentian violet. The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic illness Botulism. Credit: CDC.

Most of the eastern U.S. was cloud free October 11.  Such widespread cloudlessness in this part of the world is rare. These clear skies are associated with a region of high pressure over the eastern central U.S. Credit: NASA.

Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ... Credit: NASA.

This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane. ... Credit: NASA.

A rare photo showing both the Washington Monument and the U. S. Capitol from ground level. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Conductivity-Temperature-Depth rosette being deployed on a rare calm day in western Alaska waters. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve An American bittern - Peromyscus leucopus. This secretive bird is relatively rare and requires healthy wetlands for its continued existence. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Dascyllus albisella -damselfish with butterfly Chaetodon ephippium This butterfly is rare in Hawaii. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Though the obligation on the parents to bring up their children, and the obligation on children to honour their parents, contain all the power on the one hand, and submission on the other, which are proper to this relation, yet there is another power ordinarily in the father, whereby he has a tie on the obedience of his children; which tho' it be common to him with other men, yet the occasions of shewing it, almost consich tho' it be common to him with other men, yet the occasions of shewing it, almost constantly happening to fathers in their private families, and the instances of it elsewhere being rare, and less taken notice of, it passes in the world for a part of paternal jurisdiction. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Skilful men, of the medical and chirurgical profession, were of rare occurrence in the colony

To sum up, events were rare in his life

The fiddle is rare, hard to learn

The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In rare cases death occurs. (references)

This is a very rare occurrence. (references)

Remains extremely rare in humans. (references)

Business

It is believed that such revocations are rare. (references)

With rare exception, the chamber has a maximum of five weeks to decide cases. (references)

The law permits public sector strikes, but formal public sector strikes are rare. (references)

Children

Comoros

Child abuse appears to be rare. (references)

Mozambique

Special access facilities are rare. (references)

Ethiopia

Wheelchairs are rare in the country. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

Conversions from Islam to other religions are rare. (references)

Pakistan

However, prosecutions under this provision were rare. (references)

Greece

However, seizures are very rare, and there were none during the year. (references)

Discrimination

Belize

Discrimination on ethnic or religious grounds is illegal and rare, although ethnic tension, particularly resentment of recently arrived Central American and Asian immigrants, continued to be a problem. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Sanctions have been rare. (references)

Azerbaijan

Product guarantees are still rare. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

Incidents of brutality and other abuses occurred but were rare. (references)

Yemen

However, the use of amputations as punishment is extremely rare. (references)

Colombia

Judges determine the outcome of all trials; jury trials are rare. (references)

Minorities

Mauritius

Interreligious or interethnic marriage is relatively rare. (references)

Dominican Republic

Even when permitted to attend primary school, it is rare that the children of Haitian parents progress beyond sixth grade. (references)

India

While much more rare in urban settings, such extreme examples of intolerance occur regularly in rural parts of the country. (references)

Political Economy

Cape Verde

By all indications, corruption is rare. (references)

MALAYSIA

Thus, though theoretically legal, strikes are extremely rare. (references)

Sudan

Female prisoners are held separately from men; rape in prison reportedly is rare. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

Roll-call votes in the Assembly are rare. (references)

Yemen

In a national referendum held in February, citizens approved several amendments to the Constitution, including amendments that would extend the terms of Members of Parliament from 4 to 6 years and the President from 5 to 7 years, allow the President to dissolve Parliament without a referendum in rare instances, and abolish the President's ability to issue decrees while Parliament was in recess. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

Long-term trade and project finance is rare. (references)

Travel

Poland

Violent crime remains rare, but is growing. (references)

Spain

Terrorist activities: Civil disorder in Spain is rare. (references)

Kuwait

Kuwait's crime rate is moderate and violent crime is rare. (references)

Women

Laos

Rape reportedly is rare. (references)

Laos

Sexual harassment is rare. (references)

Tuvalu

Violence against women is rare. (references)

Worker Rights

Laos

Child labor is rare in industrial enterprises. (references)

Papua New Guinea

This type of employment is rare, except in subsistence agriculture. (references)

India

Offenders may be sentenced to up to 3 years in prison, but prosecutions are rare. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Rare

Expressions using "rare": a person of rare kindness ♦ at a rare bat ♦ at rare bat ♦ extremely rare ♦ kind to a rare degree ♦ medium rare ♦ rare bird ♦ rare bit ♦ rare book ♦ rare earth ♦ rare earth intensifying screen ♦ rare earth intensifying screens ♦ rare earth metals ♦ rare earth screens ♦ rare earths ♦ rare edition ♦ rare event ♦ rare gas ♦ rare gases ♦ rare meat ♦ rare metal ♦ rare mode ♦ welsh rare bit ♦ with very rare exceptions. Additional references.

Beginning with "rare": Rare-air, rare-binding, rare-breed, rare-earth, rare-earth element, rare-earth-element, rare-groove, rare-in-eire, rare-rage, rare-vintage.

Ending with "rare": all-too-rare, less-rare, medium-rare, now-rare, ultra-rare.

Afrikaans

skaars (barely, hardly, only, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Albanian

shumë i mirë (admirable, first rate, gilt-edged, Lummy, tiptop), jashtëzakonisht (embarrassingly, enormously, exceedingly, extraordinarily, extremely, immensely, notably, on end, only, overwhelmingly, parlous, pre-eminently, rarely, really, solely), i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, especial, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, individual, odd, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, pet, queer, racy, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i rralluar (tenuous, thin), i rrallë (curious, far between, infrequent, out of the way, scarce, singular, sparse, stray, thin, uncommon, unwonted), i pazakonshëm (new, object, out, singular, strange, uncommon, unwonted), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Arabic 

نادر (exceptional), ‏مخلل (pickle, pickled, pickles), ‏مخلخل, ‏نادر (anecdotic, close, exceptional, exceptive, few and far between, infrequent, out of the ordinary, phenomenal, recherche, scarce, tight, uncommon, unusual), ‏قليل الكثافة (tenuous), ‏غير منضج جيدا, ‏إستثنائي (especial, exceptional, exceptive, extraneous, extraordinary, freak, freaked, mighty, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, prodigious, remarkable, singular, special, terrific, thundering, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

Basque

arraro. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рядък (close, fine, infrequent, occasional, one in a thousand, recherche, singular, sparse, thin, uncommon, washy), рохък, разсеян (absent, absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, distrait, forgetful, moony, oblivious, preoccupied, scatter-brained, stray, unmindful, vacant, wandering, wool gathering), разреден (dilute, diluted, reduced, small, tenuous, thin), разпръснат (diffuse, effuse, scattered, straggling), необичаен (abnormal, bastard, exceeding, out, out of the ordinary, out of the way, outlandish, special, unaccustomed, uncanny, unconventional, uncouth, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted), недопечен (doughy, half-baked, half-done, raw, samel, slack-baked, sodden, underdone), превъзходен (capital, egregious, excellent, incompatible, nailing, pre eminent, super, superb, superlative, swell, tiptop, top-hole, topping, transcendent, wizard), изключителен (especial, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, inimitable, one in a thousand, phenomenal, rousing, signal, super, superior, surpassing, unaverage, uncommon, unexampled, unique, unusual, vintage). (various references)

Chinese 

鮮 (few, fresh), 難得 (hard to come by, seldom), 罕见, 罕 , 瑋 (precious), 稀少 (rarely), 禕 (excellent, precious), 尟 (few), 希 (infrequent), 不可多得 (hard to come by). (various references)

Czech

zředìný (diluted), vzácný (few and far between, infrequent, minor, noble, precious, scarce, uncommon, valuable), výjimeèný (anomalous, exceptionable, exceptional, special, uncommon, unusual), unikátní (unique, unmatched), nesmírný (enormous, extreme, great, immeasurable, immense, infinite, prodigious, unbounded, utmost, vast), neobyèejný (extraordinary, phenomenal, singular, special, spectacular, strange, uncommon, unusual), nedovařený (half-baked, underdone), krvavý (bloody, Goring, gory, sanguinary, underdone), řídký (far between, few and far between, infrequent, runny, scarce, sparse, tenuous, thin, washy). (various references)

Danish

sjælden (seldom). (various references)

Dutch

zeldzaam (precious), schaars (in short supply, scanty, scarce), ongemeen. (various references)

Esperanto

rara (precious), malofta. (various references)

Faeroese

rárur (precious), sjaldsamur, sjáldsamur (curious, interesting, precious, quaint). (various references)

Farsi 

نیم پخته (Halfbaked, Sodden), نادر (Curious, Infrequent, Scarce, Uncommon), کمیاب (Curiosity, Infrequent, Scarce, Uncommon), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), لطیف (Benign, Delicate, Fine, Gaseous, Gentle, Gossamer, Rosewater, Soft, Subtle, Tender, Tenuous, Volatile), رقیق (Attenuate, Ethereal, Thin, Watery). (various references)

Finnish

raaka (brutal, coarse, crude, green, not ripe, raw, rough, rude, unrefined, unripe, unwrought, yard), puolikypsä (half ripe, halfbaked, underdone), harvinainen (infrequent, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

French

saignant, rare (rarely). (various references)

French Canadian

saignant. (various references)

Frisian

seldsum. (various references)

German

selten (exceptionally, infrequent, once in a blue moon, precious, rarely, scarce, seldom, seldomly, uncommon, unusual, unusually), rar (sparse), blutig (bloodily, bloody, deadly, gorily, gory, lurid, sanguinary, sanguineous). (various references)

Greek 

κρέας ψημένο λίγο (underdone), σπάνιοσ (infrequent, scarce), σπάνιος (scarce, thin on the ground), σχεδόν άψητοσ, μισοψημένοσ (half-baked, medium, underdone), αραιόσ (sparse, tenuous, thin, washy), ολιγόψητοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

יקר המציאות (scarce), לא מבושל (underdone), לא רגיל (exceptional, extraordinary, out, out of the way), קלוש (flimsy, scanty, sparse, tenuous, weak), נדיר (infrequent, scarce, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

Hungarian

kivételes (be exceptional, exceptional, exceptive, extraordinary, extreme, out of the ordinary, unique), félig sült (half-baked). (various references)

Icelandic

sjaldgæfur (precious). (various references)

Indonesian

langka (scarce), jarang (infrequent, scarce, seldom, sporadic). (various references)

Italian

raro (infrequent, rarely, scarce, uncommon, unfrequent, unusual, unusually). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

珍しい (unusual). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひぼん (extraordinary, prodigy, unique), ちんき (curious, novel, strange), はんやけ (half-baked, half-burnt, half-done), けったい (arrhythmia, intermittent pulse, uncommon), けう (temporary existence, uncommon), めったにない, めずらしい (unusual), りょうりょう (both, lonely, two each), りょうりょうたる (few, lonesome), ちん (curious, first person pronoun used by royalty, Japanese spaniel, Our, Pekinese, strange, We), まれ (seldom), たぐいまれ (unique), きだい (honorific used in company correspondence, uncommon, word or theme which indicates a season, yellow bream), きせい (ardour, completed, correction, death, entreaty, established, existing, fervour, great master of go, homecoming, oath, parasite, parasitism, pledge, prayer, ready-made, realization of an objective, regulation, returning home, spirit, strange voice, uncommon, vigour, vow), ぐう (couple, doll, even number, friend, man and wife, occasional, same kind), きしょう (badge, beauty spot, climate, damage, disposition, emblem, getting out of bed, happy laughter, injury, insignia, medal, memorizing, rising, scarce, temperament, unexpected victory, victory by uncommon stratagem, vow, weather), きしょうかち (very precious), なまやけ (half-roasted), なまにえ (ambiguous, half-cooked, immature, vague), きたい (anticipation, curious, danger, distress, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, queer, strange, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon, vapour), レア , ふせいしゅつ (extraordinary, unparalleled). (various references)

Korean 

희소한. (various references)

Manx

yindyssagh (admirable, marvellous, prodigious, surprising, terrific, wonderer, wonderful), tiark (few, scanty, scarce, short, sparse, sporadic, tight, tight of money), thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), neuchadjin (especial, exceptional, odd, out of the way, singular, uncommon), lieh-aw, gonney, goaney, goan (address, address words, expression, meagre, scant, scarce, short, slender, spare, sparse, thin, thin of hair, tight, tight of money, utterance, word, word speech), do-gheddyn (irrecoverable), braew (brave, fine, handsome, nice, precious, splendid). (various references)

Occitan

rare. (various references)

Pig Latin

areray.(various references)

Portuguese

raro (close, exquisite, infrequent, out-and-out, rose, scant, scanty, scarce, seldom, sparse, sporadic, tight, uncommon, unique, unusual, unwonted). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

cru. (various references)

Romanian

raritate (curio, dearth, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, singularity), rareori (rarely, seldom), rar (choice, exceptional, far between, infrequent, lank, lanky, occasionally, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, thinly, uncommon, unusual), extraordinar (amazing, arch, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful), curios (agog, curiosity-monger, curious, inquisitive, meddler, odd, particular, paul pry, peculiar, prying, queer, quidnunc, rum, strange, uncommon), ales (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme). (various references)

Russian 

редкий (far between, far-between, infrequent, occasional, out of print, scarce, sparse, thin, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

Scottish

tearc (few, scarce, unusual), annamh (scarce, seldom), ainneamh (See <A HREF="mf00.html#annamh">annamh</A>), ainmig (scarce, seldom). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

redak (infrequent, scarce, spare, sparse, thin), razređen (diluted, rarefied), slabo pečen, nedopečen (samel). (various references)

Spanish

raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, dingy, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird). (various references)

Swedish

sällsynt (infrequent, scarce, unwonted), blodig (bloodstained, bloody, deadly, gory, grevious, internecine, sanguinary). (various references)

Thai

เบาบาง (อากาศ), ไม่สุกมาก, สุดยอด (awesome!, corking, dogs, summit, tiptop), ซึ่งหายาก, ซึ่งมีค่า. (various references)

Turkish

seyreltik (attenuate, dilute, diluted), seyrek (few and far between, infrequent, scarce, scattered, seldom, sparse, straggly, tenuous, thin), olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), nadir (exceptional, few and far between, infrequent, scarce, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), ender (exceptional, unusual), bulunmaz (heaven-sent, unobtainable, unprocurable), az pişmiş (underdone), az bulunur (infrequent, scarce). (various references)

Turkmen 

seяrek (seldom, unusual), gyt. (various references)

Ukrainian

рідкісний (few, infrequent, occasional, offbeat, out of the way, scarce), рідкий (diffluent, fluid, liquid, runny, slushy, sparse, thin, weak, wet), рано (early, ere, soon), винятково (notably, only, rarely), незрівнянний (disparate, incomparable, matchless, peerless, stunning, transcendent, unapproachable, unmatched, unparalleled), недосмажений (underdone), напрочуд. (various references)

Vietnamese 

rất vui..., rất tốt (first-rate), rất ngon, rán còn lòng đào, xào còn hơi sống, hiếm có (rarely, unfrequent, unwonted), hiếm (rarely, scant, uncommon), ít có loãng rất quý. (various references)

Welsh

prin (bare, barely, hardly, only just, scarce, scarcely), anghyffredin (abnormal, uncommon), anfynych (infrequent, seldom), anaml (infrequent, rarely, seldom), amheuthun (choice, dainty, delicacy, rarity, savory, treat). (various references)

rarus. (various references)

rere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "rare": rarebit, rarebits, rared, rarefaction, rarefactional, rarefactions, rarefied, rarefier, rarefiers, rarefies, rarefy, rarefying, rarely, rareness, rarenesses, rarer, rareripe, rareripes, rares, rarest. (additional references)

Words ending with "rare": curare, ultrarare, urare. (additional references)

Words containing "rare": curares, infrared, infrareds, suprarenal, suprarenals, ultrararefied, ultrarealism, ultrarealisms, ultrarealist, ultrarealistic, ultrarealists, ultrared, ultrareds, ultrarefined, ultrareliable, ultrarespectable, ultrarevolutionaries, ultrarevolutionary, urares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arbre, Arbrex, arre, Arrez, arrh, arri, Arrrr, arru, Iriri, orare, raae, Rabro, rafe, rahe, raie, Rair, raire, raoe, rar, rara, rard, Rarde, rarden, rarea, rared, raree, rares, rarey, rarf, Rari, rarre, rarse, Rarx, rary, raue, rawe, raxe, recre, reer, repre, rer, rere, reree, rerge, reri, rerr, rerue, rerve, rier, rire, riree, rirk, Rnars, roare, rore, Roriz, rr, rra, rrage, rrek, Ruairi, Rure, ruree, rurh, Rwaje, ryar, Ryrie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rear.

-1 letter: are, ear, era, err.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: airer, armer, barer, barre, carer, darer, drear, farer, parer, racer, raker, raper, rared, rarer, rares, raser, rater, raver, rawer, razer, rearm, rears, rebar, reran, tarre, terra, urare, yarer.

+2 letters: adorer, aerier, airers, airier, archer, arguer, arider, armers, armure, arrear, arrest, arrive, artery, artier, barber, barker, barred, barrel, barren, barres, barret, barter, bearer, bracer, braver, brawer, brayer, brazer, carder, career, carers, carper, carrel, carter, carver, crater, craver, curare, darers, darker, darner, darter, dearer, draper, drawer, drears, dreary, earner, eraser, errand, errant, errata, fairer, farcer, farers, farmer, fearer, framer, frater, garner, garred, garret, garter, grader, grater, graver, grayer, grazer, harder, harmer, harper, hearer, irater, irreal, jarred, kerria, krater, larder, larger, larker, marker, marred, marrer, nearer, parers, parker, parred, parrel, parser, parure, prater, prayer, prearm, prewar, racers, racier, racker, rafter, raider, railer, raiser, rakers, rammer, ranger, ranker, ranter, rapers, rapier, rapper, rarefy, rarely, rarest, rasers, rasher, rasper, raster, rasure, raters, rather, ratter, ravers, razers, reader, realer, reamer, reaper, reared, rearer, rearms, reaver, rebars, redear, redraw, reearn, regard, regear, rehear, remark, remora, repair, repark, rerack, reread, retard, retear, retral, reward, rewarm, rewrap, roamer, roared, roarer, scarer, searer, sharer, sierra, snarer, soarer, sparer, starer, tarred, tarres, tarter, tearer, terrae, terras, tracer, trader, uprear, urares, varier, warder, warier, warmer, warner, warper, warred, warren, wearer, yarner.