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tathagata

/təˈtɑːɡətə/noun

tathagata is spelled T-A-T-H-A-G-A-T-A: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tathagata means “A term of address to a buddha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tathagata is tathāgatas or tathagatas.

How many letters and syllables are in tathagata?

Letters9: T-A-T-H-A-G-A-T-A
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th 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 tathagata?

Tathagata appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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).

How do you pronounce tathagata?

  • /təˈtɑːɡətə/

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

Forms of tathagata

  • tathāgatas plural
  • tathagatas plural
  • tathāgata

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

What does tathagata mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A term of address to a buddha.

noun

as tathāgata
  1. 1

    Alternative form of tathagata.

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

Where does tathagata come from?

Borrowed from Sanskrit तथागत (tathāgata).

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

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