biryani
\bi.ʁja.ni\
The verdict
“biryani” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de plat épicé à base de riz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biryani · biryani · French
biryani · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biryani |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ʁja.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biryani » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biryani is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ʁja.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de plat épicé à base de riz.".
No misspelling variants are generated for biryani in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is biryani, spelled B-I-R-Y-A-N-I.
Definition
- 1Sorte de plat épicé à base de riz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biryani appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu te faufiles dans la cuisine et laisse les odeurs tourbillonner en toi. Des effluves d’ail et de cardamone flottent dans l’air, ce qui veut dire que Kamal est venue faire la cuisine pour la semaine et a préparé du biryani et du riz turc à la demande de DD.
C’est ainsi qu’à sa propre surprise et à celle de sa femme, Girija Prasad le carnivore devient végétarien. Afin de gagner quelques heures de repos, il renonce définitivement aux œufs brouillés, à l’agneau biryani et aux steaks de bœuf.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.