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Lingayat

noun

Lingayat is spelled L-I-N-G-A-Y-A-T: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Lingayat means “An adherent of Lingayatism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Lingayat is Lingayats.

How many letters and syllables are in Lingayat?

Letters8: L-I-N-G-A-Y-A-T
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th 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 Lingayat?

Lingayat appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 Lingayat

  • Lingayats plural

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

What does Lingayat mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An adherent of Lingayatism.

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

Where does Lingayat come from?

From Kannada ಲಿಂಗಾಯತ (liṅgāyata).

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

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