kabuki
\ka.by.ki\
The verdict
“kabuki” is uncommon French (frequency #66,851 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,851
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme épique du théâtre japonais traditionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kabuki · kabuki · French
kabuki · rank #66,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,851
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kabir
Nearest frequency peer: Kabir (-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 « kabuki »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jokes
jokes
33,155 corpus weight
- Jozef
Jozef
33,154 corpus weight
- juridiction…
juridictionnel
33,153 corpus weight
- Kabir
Kabir
33,151 corpus weight
- kabuki
kabuki
33,150 corpus weight
- Karabakh
Karabakh
33,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kabuki » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kabuki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.by.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kabuki » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kabuki is uncommon French at frequency #66,851 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.by.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme épique du théâtre japonais traditionnel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for kabuki in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kabuki, spelled K-A-B-U-K-I.
Definition
- 1Forme épique du théâtre japonais traditionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kabuki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est à cette époque, vers 1603, qu'Izumo no Okuni, danseuse émérite et courtisane fameuse, […] va se produire publiquement en dansant le Nembutsu Odori […]. Elle va donner naissance ainsi au kabuki, une école artistique proposant une sorte de version populaire du théâtre nô.
… Cet apprentissage précoce est surtout caractéristique des deux branches de notre tradition théâtrale : le nô et le kabuki. Les pièces nô, qui se sont développées au XIVe siècle, sont issues de danses de cour rituelles exécutées en offrande aux dieux. … Le kabuki, né deux siècles plus tard pour distraire le peuple, est plus animé et peut se comparer à l’…
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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