dagoba
"dagoba" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dagoba” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stupa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dagoba · dagoba · English
dagoba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dagoba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dagoba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dagoba is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A stupa.".
dagoba has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sinhalese දාගැබ (dāgæba). The correct English form is dagoba, spelled D-A-G-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1A stupa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dagoba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There, the interviewer, a Tamil professor, asked him only one question: to describe the shape of a dagoba, a Buddhist temple
Etymology
Borrowed from Sinhalese දාගැබ (dāgæba).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.