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kikyo

noun

kikyo is a noun meaning “A Japanese bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-K-Y-O, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does kikyo mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A Japanese bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus).

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

How common is kikyo?

Kikyo appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 kikyo come from?

Borrowed from Japanese 桔梗 (kikyō).

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