sangha
"sangha" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sangha” is uncommon English (frequency #53,836 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,836
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; as one of the three jewels of Buddhism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sangha · sangha · English
sangha · rank #53,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,836
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH salutations
Nearest frequency peer: salutations (-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 “sangha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sabin
sabin
46,169 corpus weight
- salutations
salutations
46,166 corpus weight
- sangha
sangha
46,165 corpus weight
- Sargon
Sargon
46,163 corpus weight
- satiety
satiety
46,162 corpus weight
- Scanlan
Scanlan
46,161 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sangha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sangha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sangha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sangha is uncommon English at frequency #53,836 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sangha doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”). The correct English form is sangha, spelled S-A-N-G-H-A.
Definition
- 1The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; as one of the three jewels of Buddhism.
- 2The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).
Etymology
Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).