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yukata

noun

yukata is spelled Y-U-K-A-T-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, yukata means “An unlined cotton summer kimono worn by both men and women” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of yukata is yukatas.

How many letters and syllables are in yukata?

Letters6: Y-U-K-A-T-A
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd 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 yukata?

Yukata appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 yukata

  • yukatas plural

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

What does yukata mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An unlined cotton summer kimono worn by both men and women.

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

Yukata in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a light kimono:

LanguageWords
Frenchyukata
GermanYukata

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does yukata come from?

From Japanese 浴衣(ゆかた) (yukata), originally short for 湯帷子(ゆかたびら) (yukatabira, “kimono worn during or after bathing”).

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

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