varna
\vaʁ.na\
The verdict
“varna” is uncommon French (frequency #58,334 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,334
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caste hindoue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-varna · varna · French
varna · rank #58,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,334
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vandalisée
Nearest frequency peer: vandalisée (-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 « varna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Valognes
Valognes
41,670 corpus weight
- valurent
valurent
41,669 corpus weight
- vandalisée
vandalisée
41,668 corpus weight
- varna
varna
41,667 corpus weight
- vectorielle
vectorielle
41,666 corpus weight
- veni
veni
41,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « varna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | varna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vaʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « varna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
varna is uncommon French at frequency #58,334 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vaʁ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for varna in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is varna, spelled V-A-R-N-A.
Definition
- 1Caste hindoue.
- 2Système relatif à ces castes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how varna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La population libre se partage en quatre « varnas » (on les appelle souvent « castes »).
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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