yatra
"yatra" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yatra” is uncommon English (frequency #52,113 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,113
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Hindu pilgrimage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yatra · yatra · English
yatra · rank #52,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,113
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yb
Nearest frequency peer: yb (+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 “yatra”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wootton
Wootton
47,892 corpus weight
- yaoi
yaoi
47,890 corpus weight
- yatra
yatra
47,888 corpus weight
- yb
yb
47,887 corpus weight
- Younis
Younis
47,884 corpus weight
- Zamboanga
Zamboanga
47,883 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yatra” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yatra |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yatra” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yatra is uncommon English at frequency #52,113 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Hindu pilgrimage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yatra, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Sanskrit यात्रा (yātrā). The correct English form is yatra, spelled Y-A-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1A Hindu pilgrimage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yatra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thousands of activists and vehicles therefore diffused quietly out of Delhi in the following days to reassemble in a yatra that now swelled to 40–50,000 people.
By calling this little stroll a yatra I am making a mild joke to myself, because in India a yatra can be a grueling expedition such as a hike to the top of Mount Kailas in the Himalayas.
Etymology
From Sanskrit यात्रा (yātrā).
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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