kami
\ka.mi\
The verdict
“kami” is uncommon French (frequency #54,056 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,056
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esprit, divinité, ou dieu, dans le shintoïsme japonais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kami · kami · French
kami · rank #54,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,056
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH justifiable
Nearest frequency peer: justifiable (-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 « kami »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jouables
jouables
45,948 corpus weight
- jugea
jugea
45,947 corpus weight
- justifiable
justifiable
45,946 corpus weight
- kami
kami
45,945 corpus weight
- kari
kari
45,944 corpus weight
- Katerine
Katerine
45,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kami » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kami |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.mi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kami » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kami is uncommon French at frequency #54,056 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Esprit, divinité, ou dieu, dans le shintoïsme japonais.".
kami doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kami, spelled K-A-M-I.
Definition
- 1Esprit, divinité, ou dieu, dans le shintoïsme japonais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kami appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enfant du Mont-Noir ne différait pas tant d’une jeune Japonaise entourée de huit millions de Kami dont on n’a même pas à connaître les noms, ou des enfants gallo-romains sur les mêmes lieux, sensibles à la puissance anonyme des bois et des sources.
Dans les temples et sanctuaires historiques de Kyoto, comme dans le moindre petit temple de quartier, on peut voir des Japonais de tous âges se recueillir, mains jointes, devant les autels, allumer un bâtonnet d’encens ou une bougie, déposer une pièce en offrande ou frapper dans leurs mains pour invoquer le kami du lieu.
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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