ahimsa

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for ahimsa is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈhɪmsɑː/. Corpus data places it at rank #83,955 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ahimsa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Sanskrit अहिंसा (ahiṃsā). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is ahimsa, spelled A-H-I-M-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.