vinaya
"vinaya" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vinaya” is uncommon English (frequency #96,640 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,640
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The rules that regulate Buddhist monastic life.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vinaya · vinaya · English
vinaya · rank #96,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,640
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vint
Nearest frequency peer: vint (+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 “vinaya”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- venu
venu
3,365 corpus weight
- Veron
Veron
3,363 corpus weight
- vinaya
vinaya
3,361 corpus weight
- vint
vint
3,360 corpus weight
- vireo
vireo
3,359 corpus weight
- VLT
VLT
3,358 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vinaya” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vinaya |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vinaya” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vinaya is uncommon English at frequency #96,640 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The rules that regulate Buddhist monastic life.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vinaya in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Transliteration of Pali vinaya. The correct English form is vinaya, spelled V-I-N-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1The rules that regulate Buddhist monastic life.
Etymology
Transliteration of Pali vinaya.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).