vipassana
"vipassana" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vipassana” is uncommon English (frequency #73,775 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,775
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, and the realisation of nonself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vipassana · vipassana · English
vipassana · rank #73,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,775
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vistula
Nearest frequency peer: Vistula (+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 “vipassana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Venizelos
Venizelos
26,234 corpus weight
- Vilna
Vilna
26,229 corpus weight
- vipassana
vipassana
26,226 corpus weight
- Vistula
Vistula
26,225 corpus weight
- vivant
vivant
26,223 corpus weight
- Vogler
Vogler
26,220 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vipassana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vipassana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vipassana” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vipassana is uncommon English at frequency #73,775 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, and the realisation of nonself.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vipassana in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Transliteration of Pali vipassanā, from Sanskrit विपश्यना (vipaśyanā). The correct English form is vipassana, spelled V-I-P-A-S-S-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, and the realisation of nonself.
Etymology
Transliteration of Pali vipassanā, from Sanskrit विपश्यना (vipaśyanā).
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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