banchan
/ˈbɑn.t͡ʃɑn/noun
banchan is spelled B-A-N-C-H-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is panchan: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Banchan is a noun meaning “A small dish of food served with cooked rice in Korean cuisine”. The plural of banchan is banchans.
How many letters and syllables are in banchan?
| Letters | 7: B-A-N-C-H-A-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, panchan, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell banchan?
Banchan is spelled B-A-N-C-H-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for banchan in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is banchan?
Banchan appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
How do you pronounce banchan?
- /ˈbɑn.t͡ʃɑn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-banchan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of banchan
- banchans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does banchan mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small dish of food served with cooked rice in Korean cuisine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Banchan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Korean or similar side dish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | banchan |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does banchan come from?
Borrowed from Korean 반찬(飯饌) (banchan).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).