Kagoshima
The verdict
“Kagoshima” is uncommon French (frequency #96,046 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,046
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville japonaise située sur l’île de Kyushu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kagoshima · Kagoshima · French
Kagoshima · rank #96,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,046
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kaduna
Nearest frequency peer: Kaduna (-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 « Kagoshima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Junie
Junie
3,959 corpus weight
- juraient
juraient
3,957 corpus weight
- Kaduna
Kaduna
3,956 corpus weight
- Kagoshima
Kagoshima
3,955 corpus weight
- kamoulox
kamoulox
3,954 corpus weight
- karman
karman
3,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kagoshima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kagoshima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kagoshima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kagoshima is uncommon French at frequency #96,046 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kagoshima, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Kagoshima, spelled K-A-G-O-S-H-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Ville japonaise située sur l’île de Kyushu.
- 2Département japonais ayant cette ville pour capitale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kagoshima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’agence météorologique japonaise a émis un « avertissement spécial » dans les départements de Kagoshima et Miyazaki, où au moins 20 000 personnes ont passé la nuit dans des abris.
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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