# Sinbad

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #47,910

## Definitions
1. A fictional sailor, the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin, who encountered monsters and magic while travelling the seas east of Africa and south of Asia.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سِنْدِبَاد (sindibād), from Middle Persian (compare Persian سندباد (sendbâd)), possibly borrowed from Sanskrit सिद्धपथ (siddhapatha, “path of the Blessed”).
According to folk etymology, from سند (send) + باد (bâd), whence also the Arabic هِنْدِبَاد (hindibād).

## Easily confused with
- **Sinha** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sinbad-vs-sinha)
- **Sinead** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sinbad-vs-sinead)
- **Sina** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sina-vs-sinbad)
- **Sinai** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sinai-vs-sinbad)

## Common misspellings (9)
`isnbad`, `sibnad`, `sinabd`, `sinbadd`, `sinbbad`, `sinbda`, `sinnbad`, `snibad`, `ssinbad`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sinbad