kumari
"kumari" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kumari” is uncommon English (frequency #62,262 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,262
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kumari · kumari · English
kumari · rank #62,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,262
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kronor
Nearest frequency peer: kronor (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “kumari”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- kith
kith
37,743 corpus weight
- Koreas
Koreas
37,741 corpus weight
- kronor
kronor
37,740 corpus weight
- kumari
kumari
37,739 corpus weight
- Kursk
Kursk
37,738 corpus weight
- Lafarge
Lafarge
37,736 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kumari” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kumari |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kumari” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kumari is uncommon English at frequency #62,262 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.".
kumari doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sanskrit कुमारी (kumārī, “princess; young girl”). The correct English form is kumari, spelled K-U-M-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1A living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kumari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shakya […] reached puberty and 'retired' as a royal kumari, as the young Nepalese goddesses are known.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit कुमारी (kumārī, “princess; young girl”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).