yojana

noun

"yojana" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“yojana” is uncommon English (frequency #66,421 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,421
frequency rank, English
366
“Y” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Vedic unit of distance used in ancient India, believed to be approximately 6 to 15 kilometers (4 to 9 miles).

Corpus desk

Index EN-yojana · yojana · English

yojana · rank #66,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,421
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 366
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yggdrasil

Nearest frequency peer: Yggdrasil (-1 rank slots)

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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 “yojana”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “yojana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for yojana
PropertyValue
Headwordyojana
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#66,421
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “yojana” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).yojanafalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “Yggdrasil” (#66,420), “Zarathustra” (#66,422), “yeap” (#66,418). Among 366 “Y” headwords, “yojana” is #66,421. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

yojana is uncommon English at frequency #66,421 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Vedic unit of distance used in ancient India, believed to be approximately 6 to 15 kilometers (4 to 9 miles).".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yojana, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sanskrit योजन (yojana). The correct English form is yojana, spelled Y-O-J-A-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    A Vedic unit of distance used in ancient India, believed to be approximately 6 to 15 kilometers (4 to 9 miles).

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit योजन (yojana).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yojana"?
"yojana" is spelled Y-O-J-A-N-A.
What does "yojana" mean?
As a noun, "yojana" means: A Vedic unit of distance used in ancient India, believed to be approximately 6 to 15 kilometers (4 to 9 miles).
What is the origin of the word "yojana"?
Borrowed from Sanskrit योजन (yojana). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list