renga
noun
renga is a noun meaning “A form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together, the origin of haikai and haiku” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-N-G-A, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of renga is rengas.
What does renga mean?
noun
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A form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together, the origin of haikai and haiku.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of renga
- rengas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is renga?
Renga appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 renga come from?
From Japanese 連歌 (renga, literally “connected verse”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).