brahmane
\bʁa.man\
The verdict
“brahmane” is uncommon French (frequency #80,000 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,000
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la première des quatre grandes castes chez les Hindous, qui enseigne la doctrine des védas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brahmane · brahmane · French
brahmane · rank #80,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,000
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bouvines
Nearest frequency peer: Bouvines (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « brahmane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bourdonne
bourdonne
20,004 corpus weight
- bouté
bouté
20,003 corpus weight
- Bouvines
Bouvines
20,002 corpus weight
- brahmane
brahmane
20,001 corpus weight
- brahmi
brahmi
20,000 corpus weight
- brimer
brimer
19,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brahmane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « brahmane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brahmane is uncommon French at frequency #80,000 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁa.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brahmane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, qu'on appelle schankar-ant « la fin (du jour) de Siva », on distribue aux brahmanes du ghî, des gâteaux et d'autres friandises, et on se livre ensuite aux mêmes folies qui ont lieu à la fête du déwâli.
Mais si un vaisya ou un kchàtriya a des relations coupables avec une brahmane non gardée par son mari, que le roi fasse payer au vaisya cinq cents panas d’amende, et mille au kchàtrya. (Liv. VIII, st. 376.)
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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