akita
\a.ki.ta\
The verdict
“akita” is uncommon French (frequency #69,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,574
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien originaire du Japon, à queue longue et épaisse, à poil court et dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-akita · akita · French
akita · rank #69,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,574
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ailées
Nearest frequency peer: ailées (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « akita »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aggloméré
aggloméré
30,430 corpus weight
- agnelli
agnelli
30,429 corpus weight
- ailées
ailées
30,428 corpus weight
- akita
akita
30,427 corpus weight
- Alfieri
Alfieri
30,426 corpus weight
- alisa
alisa
30,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « akita » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | akita |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ki.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « akita » en français
Rare enough to double-check
akita is uncommon French at frequency #69,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ki.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien originaire du Japon, à queue longue et épaisse, à poil court et dur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for akita, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is akita, spelled A-K-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Race de chien originaire du Japon, à queue longue et épaisse, à poil court et dur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how akita appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ça, c’est un akita, a déclaré Colp en examinant le chien vautré sur le divan. Un chien japonais. J’en ai vu à Tokyo. Faut pas plaisanter avec ce genre de clébard.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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