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ruach

noun

ruach is a noun meaning “One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to emotion and morality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-A-C-H, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does ruach mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to emotion and morality.

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

Forms of ruach

  • ruakh

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

How common is ruach?

Ruach appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).

Where does ruach come from?

From Hebrew רוּחַ (rúakh, “spirit”).

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