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Kayah

noun

Kayah is spelled K-A-Y-A-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Kayah means “A member of any of a number of Karenic ethnolinguistic groups in Myanmar (Burma), primarily in Kayah State” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Kayah is Kayahs.

How many letters and syllables are in Kayah?

Letters5: K-A-Y-A-H
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd 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 Kayah?

Kayah appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 Kayah

  • Kayahs plural

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

What does Kayah mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A member of any of a number of Karenic ethnolinguistic groups in Myanmar (Burma), primarily in Kayah State

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

Where does Kayah come from?

From Burmese ကယား (ka.ya:).

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

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