mujahid
/mʊˈdʒɑːhɪd/
"mujahid" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mujahid” is uncommon English (frequency #69,266 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,266
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Muslim engaging in jihad, especially armed jihad; a jihadist.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mujahid · mujahid · English
mujahid · rank #69,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,266
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mula
Nearest frequency peer: Mula (+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 “mujahid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mudslide
mudslide
30,738 corpus weight
- mujahid
mujahid
30,735 corpus weight
- Mula
Mula
30,734 corpus weight
- multicenter
multicenter
30,733 corpus weight
- muskie
muskie
30,732 corpus weight
- musta
musta
30,731 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mujahid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mujahid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mʊˈdʒɑːhɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mujahid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mujahid is uncommon English at frequency #69,266 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mʊˈdʒɑːhɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Muslim engaging in jihad, especially armed jihad; a jihadist.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mujahid, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic مُجَاهِد (mujāhid), derived from the active participle of جَاهَدَ (jāhada, “to strive in the cause of God”) (verbal noun: جِهَاد (jihād, “to strive in the cause of God as a religious duty”)), from the root ج ه د (j h d). The correct English form is mujahid, spelled M-U-J-A-H-I-D.
Definition
- 1A Muslim engaging in jihad, especially armed jihad; a jihadist.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُجَاهِد (mujāhid), derived from the active participle of جَاهَدَ (jāhada, “to strive in the cause of God”) (verbal noun: جِهَاد (jihād, “to strive in the cause of God as a religious duty”)), from the root ج ه د (j h d).
This word in other languages
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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