upanishad
\y.pa.ni.ʃad\
The verdict
“upanishad” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commentaire religieux et philosophique, que les brahmanes considèrent comme faisant partie de la révélation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-upanishad · upanishad · French
upanishad · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | upanishad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.pa.ni.ʃad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
upanishad is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.pa.ni.ʃad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commentaire religieux et philosophique, que les brahmanes considèrent comme faisant partie de la révélation.".
upanishad has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is upanishad, spelled U-P-A-N-I-S-H-A-D.
Definition
- 1Commentaire religieux et philosophique, que les brahmanes considèrent comme faisant partie de la révélation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how upanishad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cent-huit upanishads, en tant qu’ensemble, constituent la partie philosophique des Védas, instructions religieuses avant tout, dont l’objet essentiel est la méditation.
On trouvait, au hasard de la recherche, des œuvres de Guénon, d’Aldous Huxley, de Raymond Abellio, les traités et sermons de maître Eckhart, les Upanishad, quelques ouvrages de Frithjof Schuön, le Monsieur Gurdjieff de Louis Pauwels, Les Sociétés secrètes de René Alleau, et une foule de livres de vulgarisation, sur le secret des pyramides, ou l’Atlantide,…
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.