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imamate

noun

imamate is spelled I-M-A-M-A-T-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, imamate means “The office or jurisdiction of an imam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of imamate is imamates.

How many letters and syllables are in imamate?

Letters7: I-M-A-M-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th 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 imamate?

Imamate appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 imamate

  • imamates plural

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

What does imamate mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The office or jurisdiction of an imam.

noun

as Imamate
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of imamate, especially when referring to a specific imamate.

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

Imamate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense office or jurisdiction of an imam:

LanguageWords
Frenchimamat
Portugueseimamato
Spanishimanato

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 imamate come from?

From imam + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

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

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