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taiyaki

noun

taiyaki is spelled T-A-I-Y-A-K-I: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, taiyaki means “A Japanese fish-shaped cake with various fillings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of taiyaki is taiyakis.

How many letters and syllables are in taiyaki?

Letters7: T-A-I-Y-A-K-I
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th 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 taiyaki?

Taiyaki appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 taiyaki

  • taiyakis plural

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

What does taiyaki mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A Japanese fish-shaped cake with various fillings.

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

Where does taiyaki come from?

From Japanese たい焼き, literally "baked sea bream".

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

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