Kamakura
\ka.ma.ku.ʁa\
The verdict
“Kamakura” is uncommon French (frequency #82,156 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,156
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville côtière du Japon situé dans la région du Kanto au sud-est de l’île de Honshu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kamakura · Kamakura · French
Kamakura · rank #82,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,156
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Jégo
Nearest frequency peer: Jégo (-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 « Kamakura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jurançon
Jurançon
17,848 corpus weight
- Jégo
Jégo
17,846 corpus weight
- Kamakura
Kamakura
17,845 corpus weight
- kamas
kamas
17,844 corpus weight
- karstique
karstique
17,843 corpus weight
- keum
keum
17,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kamakura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kamakura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ma.ku.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kamakura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kamakura is uncommon French at frequency #82,156 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ma.ku.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kamakura, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Kamakura, spelled K-A-M-A-K-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ville côtière du Japon situé dans la région du Kanto au sud-est de l’île de Honshu.
- 2Période historique japonaise débutant en l’an 1185, marquant la fin de la guerre de Gempei, à l’an 1333 marquant la fin de la régence des Hôjô.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kamakura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kamakura, siège du gouvernement de la Tente (Bakufu) et du pouvoir réel, bastion des hommes liges et des guerriers de l’Est, et Kyôto, la capitale impériale, berceau de la haute culture, dépositaire des emblèmes traditionnels du pouvoir sacré, forment ainsi deux pôles culturels et politiques, qui coexistent dans un état d’équilibre précaire.
L’on sait que la majorité oisive de l’aristocratie de cour de l’époque de Kamakura orchestrait ses loisirs en les modelant sur des précédents offerts par la littérature de la période Heian.
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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