kabocha
noun
kabocha is a noun meaning “A variety of Japanese winter squash, from species Cucurbita maxima” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-B-O-C-H-A, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kabocha is kabochas.
What does kabocha mean?
noun
- 1
A variety of Japanese winter squash, from species Cucurbita maxima.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kabocha?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-kabocha.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of kabocha
- kabochas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kabocha?
Kabocha appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).
Where does kabocha come from?
From Japanese 南瓜 (kabocha, “pumpkin, squash”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).