kigo
noun
kigo is a noun meaning “A seasonal word; a word required in haiku to indicate the season” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-G-O, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kigo is kigos.
What does kigo mean?
noun
- 1
A seasonal word; a word required in haiku to indicate the season.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kigo
- kigos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kigo?
Kigo appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 kigo come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 季語 (kigo).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).