Brahmana
"brahmana" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Brahmana” is uncommon English (frequency #79,332 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,332
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brahmana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Brahmana” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Brahmana is uncommon English at frequency #79,332 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Brahmana, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa). Doublet of brahmin. The correct English form is Brahmana, spelled B-R-A-H-M-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa). Doublet of brahmin.
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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Using “Brahmana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-A-H-M-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.