hajime
\ha.dʒi.me\
The verdict
“hajime” is uncommon French (frequency #75,750 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,750
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Signal de départ du combat, les mains doivent se placer le long du corps avant de commencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hajime · hajime · French
hajime · rank #75,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,750
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH halen
Nearest frequency peer: halen (+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 « hajime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- géolocaliser
géolocaliser
24,256 corpus weight
- Hades
Hades
24,253 corpus weight
- hajime
hajime
24,251 corpus weight
- halen
halen
24,250 corpus weight
- Halluin
Halluin
24,249 corpus weight
- Hamidou
Hamidou
24,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hajime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hajime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ha.dʒi.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hajime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hajime is uncommon French at frequency #75,750 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ha.dʒi.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hajime in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hajime, spelled H-A-J-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Signal de départ du combat, les mains doivent se placer le long du corps avant de commencer.
- 2(Arts martiaux japonais). Signal de départ d’un combat, d’un kata voire même d’une séance d’entraînement.
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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