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japonisme

noun

japonisme is spelled J-A-P-O-N-I-S-M-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, japonisme means “An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of japonisme is japonismes.

How many letters and syllables are in japonisme?

Letters9: J-A-P-O-N-I-S-M-E
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is japonisme?

Japonisme appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of japonisme

  • japonismes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does japonisme mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design.

noun

as Japonisme
  1. 1

    An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Japonisme in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense influence of Japanese art and culture on European art:

LanguageWords
Frenchjaponisme

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does japonisme come from?

From French japonisme.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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