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kabuki

French, noun/ka.by.ki/

kabuki is spelled K-A-B-U-K-I (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 66,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kabuki is a French masculine noun meaning “kabuki” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Forme épique du théâtre japonais traditionnel”.

What does kabuki mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinekabuki

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Forme épique du théâtre japonais traditionnel.

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de kabuki.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of kabuki

  • kabukis plural
  • Kabukis plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce kabuki?

  • /ka.by.ki/
  • /ka.bu.ki/
  • \ka.by.ki\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to kabuki

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is kabuki in French?

kabuki appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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