panchen-lama

/\pan.ʃen.la.ma\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

panchen-lama is aFrenchnoun. It means: Second chef spirituel, après le dalaï-lama, du bouddhisme tibétain Guélougpa pratiqué dans les aires de culture tibétaine et mongole. Pronounced \pan.ʃen.la.ma\.

Key facts for panchen-lama
PropertyValue
Headwordpanchen-lama
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pan.ʃen.la.ma\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

panchen-lama is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for panchen-lama is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pan.ʃen.la.ma\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Second chef spirituel, après le dalaï-lama, du bouddhisme tibétain Guélougpa pratiqué dans les aires de culture tibétaine et mongole.".

No misspelling variants are generated for panchen-lama in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is panchen-lama, spelled P-A-N-C-H-E-N---L-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Second chef spirituel, après le dalaï-lama, du bouddhisme tibétain Guélougpa pratiqué dans les aires de culture tibétaine et mongole.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "panchen-lama"?
"panchen-lama" is spelled P-A-N-C-H-E-N---L-A-M-A. The IPA pronunciation is \pan.ʃen.la.ma\.
What does "panchen-lama" mean?
As a noun, "panchen-lama" means: Second chef spirituel, après le dalaï-lama, du bouddhisme tibétain Guélougpa pratiqué dans les aires de culture tibétaine et mongole.
How do you pronounce "panchen-lama"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "panchen-lama" is \pan.ʃen.la.ma\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "panchen-lama" come from?
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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.