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pitaka

noun

pitaka is spelled P-I-T-A-K-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pitaka means “A collection of Buddhist scriptures” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pitaka is pitakas.

How many letters and syllables are in pitaka?

Letters6: P-I-T-A-K-A
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th 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 pitaka?

Pitaka appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 pitaka

  • pitakas plural

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

What does pitaka mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A collection of Buddhist scriptures.

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

Where does pitaka come from?

Borrowed from Sanskrit पिटक (piṭaka), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *pirtakas.

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

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