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kudan

noun

kudan is spelled K-U-D-A-N: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kudan means “A yokai with the head of a human and the body of a bovine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kudan is kudans.

How many letters and syllables are in kudan?

Letters5: K-U-D-A-N
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st 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 kudan?

Kudan appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 kudan

  • kudans plural

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

What does kudan mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A yokai with the head of a human and the body of a bovine.

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

Where does kudan come from?

Borrowed from Japanese 件 (kudan), which consists of the two radicals 亻 (“person”) + 牛 (“cow”).

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

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