stupa
/ˈstuːpə/
"stupa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stupa” is uncommon English (frequency #67,081 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,081
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stupa · stupa · English
stupa · rank #67,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,081
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stumpy
Nearest frequency peer: stumpy (-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 “stupa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Strafford
Strafford
32,923 corpus weight
- Stranraer
Stranraer
32,922 corpus weight
- stumpy
stumpy
32,921 corpus weight
- stupa
stupa
32,920 corpus weight
- subcompact
subcompact
32,919 corpus weight
- subdural
subdural
32,918 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stupa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stupa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstuːpə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stupa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stupa is uncommon English at frequency #67,081 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈstuːpə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.".
No misspelling variants are generated for stupa in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope. The correct English form is stupa, spelled S-T-U-P-A.
Definition
- 1A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stupa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas.
I cupped her cheeks and thought of the lotus flowers at the thresholds of Buddhist stupas, their pale petals resting in the palms of the faithful.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope.
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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