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kosha

noun

kosha is spelled K-O-S-H-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kosha means “Any of five sheaths that are thought to cover the Atman, or True Self, according to Vedantic philosophy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kosha is koshas.

How many letters and syllables are in kosha?

Letters5: K-O-S-H-A
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is kosha?

Kosha appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).

What rhymes with kosha?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as kosha.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: shako, sokha.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of kosha

  • koshas plural
  • kosa

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

What does kosha mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of five sheaths that are thought to cover the Atman, or True Self, according to Vedantic philosophy.

  2. 2

    A particular type of Sanskrit dictionary.

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

Where does kosha come from?

Borrowed from Sanskrit कोश (kóśa, “sheath, vessel, container, layer”).

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

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