kanji
\kan.ʒi\
The verdict
“kanji” is uncommon French (frequency #56,697 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,697
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sinogramme utilisé en écriture japonaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kanji · kanji · French
kanji · rank #56,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,697
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kaito
Nearest frequency peer: kaito (-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 « kanji »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Juana
Juana
43,308 corpus weight
- Juanita
Juanita
43,307 corpus weight
- kaito
kaito
43,305 corpus weight
- kanji
kanji
43,304 corpus weight
- Kearney
Kearney
43,303 corpus weight
- Kenyans
Kenyans
43,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kanji » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kanji |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kan.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kanji » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kanji is uncommon French at frequency #56,697 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kan.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sinogramme utilisé en écriture japonaise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for kanji in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kanji, spelled K-A-N-J-I.
Definition
- 1Sinogramme utilisé en écriture japonaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kanji appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indubitablement, la langue japonaise est d’une très grande difficulté. En premier lieu, elle comporte quatre systèmes d’écriture : les caractères idéographiques chinois (kanji), en nombre pratiquement indéfini (plusieurs milliers pour l’usage courant) ; deux systèmes phonétiques (syllabiques) indigènes, totalement différents, les hiragana et les katakana…
Les kanji sont classés dans les dictionnaires selon leur clef, et sous une même clef ils sont rangés en fonction du nombre de traits supplémentaires.
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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