brahmane
\bʁa.man\
The verdict
“brahmane” is an uncommon French word, ranked #80,000 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #80,000
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la première des quatre grandes castes chez les Hindous, qui enseigne la doctrine des védas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brahmane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.man\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brahmane” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brahmane is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁa.man\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,000 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la première des quatre grandes castes chez les Hindous, qui enseigne la doctrine des védas.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brahmane 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brahmane, spelled B-R-A-H-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la première des quatre grandes castes chez les Hindous, qui enseigne la doctrine des védas.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “brahmane”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-A-H-M-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁa.man\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.