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chakram

noun

chakram is spelled C-H-A-K-R-A-M: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chakram means “A disc-like throwing weapon from India” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chakram is chakrams.

How many letters and syllables are in chakram?

Letters7: C-H-A-K-R-A-M
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is chakram?

Chakram appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).

Forms of chakram

  • chakrams plural
  • chuckram
  • chuckrum
  • chukram

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does chakram mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A disc-like throwing weapon from India.

  2. 2

    A former currency of Travancore in present-day India.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does chakram come from?

From Sanskrit चक्रम् (cakram), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos. Doublet of chakra, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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