brahmane

\bʁa.man\

/\bʁa.man\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brahmane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brahmane
PropertyValue
Headwordbrahmane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁa.man\
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,000
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brahmane » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.brahmanetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Bouvines » (#79,999), « brahmi » (#80,001), « bouté » (#79,998). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brahmane » est au #80,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la première des quatre grandes castes chez les Hindous, qui enseigne la doctrine des védas.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how brahmane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brahmane"?
"brahmane" is spelled B-R-A-H-M-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁa.man\.
What does "brahmane" mean?
As a noun, "brahmane" means: Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la première des quatre grandes castes chez les Hindous, qui enseigne la doctrine des védas.
How do you pronounce "brahmane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brahmane" is \bʁa.man\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brahmane", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list