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paksha

noun

paksha is spelled P-A-K-S-H-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, paksha means “A fortnight in a month of the Hindu lunar calendar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of paksha is pakshas.

How many letters and syllables are in paksha?

Letters6: P-A-K-S-H-A
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th 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 paksha?

Paksha appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 paksha

  • pakshas plural

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

What does paksha mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A fortnight in a month of the Hindu lunar calendar.

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

Where does paksha come from?

From Sanskrit पक्ष (pakṣá).

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

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