banzai
\bɑ̃n.zaj\
The verdict
“banzai” is uncommon French (frequency #94,507 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,507
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamation japonaise exprimant l’enthousiasme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banzai · banzai · French
banzai · rank #94,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,507
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balrog
Nearest frequency peer: Balrog (-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 « banzai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baha
baha
5,498 corpus weight
- Balrog
Balrog
5,495 corpus weight
- banzai
banzai
5,494 corpus weight
- baragouine
baragouine
5,493 corpus weight
- Barbados
Barbados
5,492 corpus weight
- barbaries
barbaries
5,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « banzai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banzai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \bɑ̃n.zaj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « banzai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
banzai is uncommon French at frequency #94,507 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \bɑ̃n.zaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exclamation japonaise exprimant l’enthousiasme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for banzai, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is banzai, spelled B-A-N-Z-A-I.
Definition
- 1Exclamation japonaise exprimant l’enthousiasme.
This word in other languages
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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