Brahmana
"brahmana" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Brahmana” is uncommon English (frequency #79,332 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,332
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brahmana · Brahmana · English
Brahmana · rank #79,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,332
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Brahmaputra
Nearest frequency peer: Brahmaputra (+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 “Brahmana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Boutros
Boutros
20,672 corpus weight
- Brahmana
Brahmana
20,669 corpus weight
- Brahmaputra
Brahmaputra
20,668 corpus weight
- Bratz
Bratz
20,667 corpus weight
- breathlessn…
breathlessness
20,664 corpus weight
- Brinkman
Brinkman
20,662 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Brahmana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Brahmana” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Brahmana is uncommon English at frequency #79,332 among 4,121 “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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