yojana
"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)
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 “yojana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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33,588 corpus weight
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33,587 corpus weight
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33,583 corpus weight
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33,581 corpus weight
- yojana
yojana
33,580 corpus weight
- Zarathustra
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33,579 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yojana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yojana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yojana” in English
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
- 1A 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.
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