sarma
"sarma" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sarma” is uncommon English (frequency #90,935 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,935
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sarma · sarma · English
sarma · rank #90,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,935
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sanga
Nearest frequency peer: sanga (-2 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 “sarma”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- saker
saker
9,074 corpus weight
- sambuca
sambuca
9,069 corpus weight
- sanga
sanga
9,068 corpus weight
- sarma
sarma
9,066 corpus weight
- scalper
scalper
9,061 corpus weight
- Scamander
Scamander
9,060 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sarma” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sarma” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sarma is uncommon English at frequency #90,935 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sarma, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ottoman Turkish صرمه (sarma). The correct English form is sarma, spelled S-A-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صرمه (sarma).
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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