samsara
/sʌmˈsɑɹə/
"samsara" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“samsara” is uncommon English (frequency #64,681 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,681
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index EN-samsara · samsara · English
samsara · rank #64,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,681
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH salo
Nearest frequency peer: salo (-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 “samsara”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Salih
Salih
35,322 corpus weight
- salo
salo
35,321 corpus weight
- samsara
samsara
35,320 corpus weight
- Sanju
Sanju
35,318 corpus weight
- sartorius
sartorius
35,316 corpus weight
- satsuma
satsuma
35,315 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “samsara” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “samsara” in English
Rare enough to double-check
samsara is uncommon English at frequency #64,681 among 6,566 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how samsara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.
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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