samsara
/sʌmˈsɑɹə/
"samsara" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“samsara” is uncommon English (frequency #64,681 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,681
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtai...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samsara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sʌmˈsɑɹə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “samsara” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
samsara is uncommon English at frequency #64,681 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sʌmˈsɑɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtai...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for samsara, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra). The correct English form is samsara, spelled S-A-M-S-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).
This word in other languages
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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Using “samsara”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-A-M-S-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.