theyyam
noun
theyyam is a noun meaning “a Hindu ritual practiced mainly by people from castes in northern Kerala and some parts of Karnataka in India” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-E-Y-Y-A-M, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does theyyam mean?
noun
- 1
a Hindu ritual practiced mainly by people from castes in northern Kerala and some parts of Karnataka in India.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is theyyam?
Theyyam appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).
Where does theyyam come from?
Borrowed from Malayalam തെയ്യം (teyyaṁ).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).