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kantha

noun

kantha is spelled K-A-N-T-H-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kantha means “A form of embroidery in parts of South Asia, used to make cushions and quilts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kantha is kanthas.

How many letters and syllables are in kantha?

Letters6: K-A-N-T-H-A
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd 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 kantha?

Kantha appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 kantha

  • kanthas plural

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

What does kantha mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A form of embroidery in parts of South Asia, used to make cushions and quilts.

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

Where does kantha come from?

From Hindi कान्था (kānthā).

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

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