burakumin
noun
burakumin is spelled B-U-R-A-K-U-M-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is barakumin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Burakumin is a noun meaning “A member of a Japanese social minority group, descendants of feudal-era outcasts”. The plural of burakumin is burakumins.
How many letters and syllables are in burakumin?
| Letters | 9: B-U-R-A-K-U-M-I-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, barakumin, about 10 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 burakumin?
Burakumin is spelled B-U-R-A-K-U-M-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for burakumin 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 burakumin?
Burakumin appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Forms of burakumin
- burakumins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does burakumin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A member of a Japanese social minority group, descendants of feudal-era outcasts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does burakumin come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 部落民, from Middle Chinese 部落 (bu^X lak, “tribe”) + 民 (mjin, “people”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).