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touhou

noun

touhou is spelled T-O-U-H-O-U: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, touhou means “Alternative letter-case form of Touhou (“character from the Touhou Project series”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of touhou is touhous.

How many letters and syllables are in touhou?

Letters6: T-O-U-H-O-U
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 72,332nd 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 touhou?

Touhou appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd 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 touhou

  • touhous plural
  • 2hu

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

What does touhou mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Touhou (“character from the Touhou Project series”).

noun

as Touhou
  1. 1

    slangA character from the Touhou series.

    Who is your favorite touhou? Mine is probably Satsuki Rin.

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

Where does touhou come from?

Borrowed from Japanese 東方 (Tōhō, literally “eastern”). The video game series' name refers to the East Asian setting.

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

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