karateka
noun
karateka is a noun meaning “A practitioner of karate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-R-A-T-E-K-A, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of karateka is karatekas.
What does karateka mean?
noun
- 1
A practitioner of karate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of karateka
- karatekas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is karateka?
Karateka appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).
Karateka in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense practitioner of karate:
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 karateka come from?
From Japanese 空手家 (karateka).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).