bushido
\bu.ʃi.do\
The verdict
“bushido” is uncommon French (frequency #97,743 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,743
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Code de conduite des samouraïs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bushido · bushido · French
bushido · rank #97,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,743
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bums
Nearest frequency peer: bums (-2 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 « bushido »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bronchiques
bronchiques
2,264 corpus weight
- bubu
bubu
2,262 corpus weight
- Bueil
Bueil
2,261 corpus weight
- bums
bums
2,260 corpus weight
- bushido
bushido
2,258 corpus weight
- Cadbury
Cadbury
2,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bushido » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bushido |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃi.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bushido » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bushido is uncommon French at frequency #97,743 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʃi.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Code de conduite des samouraïs.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bushido, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bushido, spelled B-U-S-H-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Code de conduite des samouraïs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bushido appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sept grandes vertus confucéennes sont associées au bushido : la droiture, le courage, la bienveillance, la politesse, la sincérité, l’honneur, la loyauté.
L’auteur précise que le « bushido » s’inspire du bouddhisme, du confucianisme, du shintoïsme et du zen.
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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