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kenpo

noun

kenpo is spelled K-E-N-P-O: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kenpo means “Any of various Japanese martial arts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in kenpo?

Letters5: K-E-N-P-O
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st 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 kenpo?

Kenpo appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 kenpo

  • kempo

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

What does kenpo mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various Japanese martial arts.

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

Where does kenpo come from?

Borrowed from Japanese 拳法. Doublet of quanfa.

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

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