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dakini

noun

dakini is spelled D-A-K-I-N-I: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dakini means “A sacred female spirit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dakini is dakinis.

How many letters and syllables are in dakini?

Letters6: D-A-K-I-N-I
In writingabout once in every 33 million words; the 176,009th 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 dakini?

Dakini appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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 dakini

  • dakinis plural

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

What does dakini mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A sacred female spirit.

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

Where does dakini come from?

From Sanskrit डाकिनी (ḍākinī).

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

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