Purnima
"purnima" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Purnima” is uncommon English (frequency #97,465 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,465
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The full moon. The day (tithi) in each month in which the full moon occurs, and marks the division in each month between the two lunar fortnight in Hindu calendar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-purnima · Purnima · English
Purnima · rank #97,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,465
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pufferfish
Nearest frequency peer: pufferfish (-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 “Purnima”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- proscription
proscription
2,541 corpus weight
- pshh
pshh
2,538 corpus weight
- pufferfish
pufferfish
2,537 corpus weight
- Purnima
Purnima
2,536 corpus weight
- qh
qh
2,534 corpus weight
- quercetin
quercetin
2,532 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Purnima” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Purnima |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Purnima” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Purnima is uncommon English at frequency #97,465 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Purnima has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sanskrit पूर्णिमा (pūrṇimā, “full moon night”). The correct English form is Purnima, spelled P-U-R-N-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1The full moon. The day (tithi) in each month in which the full moon occurs, and marks the division in each month between the two lunar fortnight in Hindu calendar.
- 2A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit पूर्णिमा (pūrṇimā, “full moon night”).
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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