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Santiniketan

proper noun

Santiniketan is spelled S-A-N-T-I-N-I-K-E-T-A-N: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a proper noun, Santiniketan means “A town near Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, in eastern India” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Santiniketan?

Letters12: S-A-N-T-I-N-I-K-E-T-A-N
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th 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 Santiniketan?

Santiniketan appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 Santiniketan

  • Shantiniketan

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

What does Santiniketan mean?

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

proper noun

  1. 1

    A town near Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, in eastern India.

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

Where does Santiniketan come from?

Transliteration of Bengali শান্তিনিকেতন (śantiniketon).

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

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