Ahriman

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"ahriman" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Ahriman” is uncommon English (frequency #92,312 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,312
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, and evil.

Corpus desk

Index EN-ahriman · Ahriman · English

Ahriman · rank #92,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,312
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH Airedale

Nearest frequency peer: Airedale (+1 rank slots)

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Long-tail ranks near “Ahriman”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ahriman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Ahriman
PropertyValue
HeadwordAhriman
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#92,312
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Ahriman” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).Ahrimanfalls in this rarity band:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Airedale” (#92,313), “agoraphobic” (#92,310), “Ajaccio” (#92,314). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “Ahriman” is #92,312. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Ahriman is uncommon English at frequency #92,312 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, and evil.".

Ahriman doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: Derived from Classical Persian اَهْرِمَن (ahriman) or Iranian Persian اَهْریمَن (ahriman), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩 (ʾḥlmny /⁠ahreman⁠/), from Avestan 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (aŋra.maⁱniiu), compound of 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀 (aŋra, “destruction, destructive”) an… The correct English form is Ahriman, spelled A-H-R-I-M-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, and evil.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. [A]midst Ahriman and his hosts who had now established themselves in the Occident, and as heirs to the horns and tails of Pans and fauns, a crowd of native spirits moved; imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.

Etymology

Derived from Classical Persian اَهْرِمَن (ahriman) or Iranian Persian اَهْریمَن (ahriman), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩 (ʾḥlmny /⁠ahreman⁠/), from Avestan 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (aŋra.maⁱniiu), compound of 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀 (aŋra, “destruction, destructive”) and 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (maⁱniiu, “spirit, mind, essence, emanation etc.”). Definable through the antithetical 𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬱𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (aməša.maⁱniiu, “bounteous spirit”). Doublet of Angra Mainyu.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ahriman"?
"Ahriman" is spelled A-H-R-I-M-A-N.
What does "Ahriman" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ahriman" means: The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, and evil.
What is the origin of the word "Ahriman"?
Derived from Classical Persian اَهْرِمَن (ahriman) or Iranian Persian اَهْریمَن (ahriman), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩 (ʾḥlmny /⁠ahreman⁠/), from Avestan 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (aŋra.maⁱniiu), compound of 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀 (aŋra, “destruction, destru... See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ajaccio#92,314Alarcon#92,317addenda#92,304allelic#92,324

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list