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samadhi

/səˈmɑːdi/noun

samadhi is spelled S-A-M-A-D-H-I: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, samadhi means “A state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of samadhi is samadhis.

How many letters and syllables are in samadhi?

Letters7: S-A-M-A-D-H-I
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,063rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is samadhi?

Samadhi appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd 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).

How do you pronounce samadhi?

  • /səˈmɑːdi/

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

What rhymes with samadhi?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as samadhi.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: shimada.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of samadhi

  • samadhis plural

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

What does samadhi mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death.

  2. 2

    The highest state of meditation, at which complete unity is reached.

  3. 3

    The tomb of a holy person or saint in India.

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

Where does samadhi come from?

From Sanskrit समाधि (samādhi, “placing together”), from सम (sama, “together”) + आ (ā) prefix + धा (dhā, “to place”).

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

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