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Safavid

adjective, noun

Safavid is spelled S-A-F-A-V-I-D: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Safavid means “Relating to the Safavid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty which ruled Iran between the 16th and 18th centuries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Safavid?

Letters7: S-A-F-A-V-I-D
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 92,628th 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 Safavid?

Safavid appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th 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 Safavid

  • Safawid
  • Safavids plural

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

What does Safavid mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to the Safavid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty which ruled Iran between the 16th and 18th centuries.

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the Safavid dynasty.

  2. 2

    informalA member of the Safavid Empire, an Iranian.

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

Safavid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsafavide (relating to the Safavid dynasty), Safavide (member of the Safavid dynasty)
Germansafawidisch (relating to the Safavid dynasty)
Spanishsafávida (relating to the Safavid dynasty)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Safavid come from?

From Persian صفوی (Safavi) + -id, from Arabic صَفَوِيّ (Ṣafawiyy), from صَفِيّ (Ṣafiyy, “Safi-ad-Din Ardabili”) + ـَوـ (-aw-, interfix) + ـِيّ (-iyy, “-i, -y”, suffix forming adjectives and relational nouns).

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

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