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yakshi

noun

yakshi is spelled Y-A-K-S-H-I: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yakshi means “A female yaksha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of yakshi is yakshis.

How many letters and syllables are in yakshi?

Letters6: Y-A-K-S-H-I
In writingabout once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th 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 yakshi?

Yakshi appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).

Forms of yakshi

  • yakshis plural

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

What does yakshi mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A female yaksha.

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

Where does yakshi come from?

Borrowed from Sanskrit यक्षी (yakṣī, feminine of यक्ष (yakṣa)).

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

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