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buraku

noun

buraku is spelled B-U-R-A-K-U: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, buraku means “The burakumin, a Japanese minority group descended from feudal outcast communities” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in buraku?

Letters6: B-U-R-A-K-U
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is buraku?

Buraku appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).

What does buraku mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The burakumin, a Japanese minority group descended from feudal outcast communities

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does buraku come from?

From Japanese 部落民 (burakumin).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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