buddha
/ˈbudə/noun
buddha is spelled B-U-D-D-H-A. The wrong spelling people search most is buddah: about 1,230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Buddha is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Buddha”. The plural of buddha is buddhas.
How many letters and syllables are in buddha?
| Letters | 6: B-U-D-D-H-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, buddah, about 1,230 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell buddha?
Buddha is spelled B-U-D-D-H-A. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for buddha in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is buddha?
Buddha appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce buddha?
- UK /ˈbʊdə/
- US /ˈbudə/
- /ˈbʉdə/
Buddha has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-buddha.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with buddha?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as buddha from its last stressed vowel (/udə/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of buddha
- buddhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does buddha mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Buddha.
- 2
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noun
- 1
Any other person considered similarly enlightened.
At this point, the Amidha Buddha probably has more worshippers than the Buddha himself does.
- 2
Any other person considered similarly enlightened.
There are some who consider Jesus a buddha, not least because Buddhism had spread to Judaea by the early 1st century.
- 3
Synonym of know-it-all or smartass, a person who imagines themselves smarter or wiser than they are.
- 4
A statue or image of any Buddha.
I love visiting the temple to see the Buddha.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Buddha in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enlightened human:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does buddha come from?
Learned borrowing from Pali Buddha (“the Awakened One, the Enlightened One”), from buddha (“awakened, enlightened”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”), past participle of बोधति (bodhati, “to wake, to awaken”). Distantly related to English bid and bede. Also cognate with Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to wake up”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).