rakan
noun
rakan is a noun meaning “A Japanese arhat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-K-A-N, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Rakan, the name). The plural of rakan is rakans.
What does rakan mean?
noun
- 1
A Japanese arhat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rakan
- rakans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rakan?
Rakan appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Rakan, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does rakan come from?
From Japanese 羅漢 (rakan).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).