Yama
"yama" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yama” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,024
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yama · Yama · English
Yama · rank #48,024 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,024
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yardley
Nearest frequency peer: Yardley (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Yama”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- workbench
workbench
51,981 corpus weight
- wriggle
wriggle
51,979 corpus weight
- Yama
Yama
51,977 corpus weight
- Yardley
Yardley
51,976 corpus weight
- yat
yat
51,975 corpus weight
- yoyo
yoyo
51,972 corpus weight
What this shows “Yama” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Yama”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Yama, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,024 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yama, with forms such as "ayma", "yaam", and "yamma". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yea", "yay", "yan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sanskrit यम (yamá). Doublet of Enma. The correct English form is Yama, spelled Y-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit यम (yamá). Doublet of Enma.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ayma
- yaam
- yamma
- ymaa
- yyama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yama - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).