katakana
\ka.ta.ka.na\
The verdict
“katakana” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kana, caractère notant une more en japonais, dérivé de fragments d’un kanji dont il a hérité sa prononciation. Il en existe une cinquantaine, dont quelques désuets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-katakana · katakana · French
katakana · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | katakana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ta.ka.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « katakana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
katakana is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ta.ka.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for katakana, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 katakana, spelled K-A-T-A-K-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Kana, caractère notant une more en japonais, dérivé de fragments d’un kanji dont il a hérité sa prononciation. Il en existe une cinquantaine, dont quelques désuets.
- 2Syllabaire qui regroupe l’ensemble de ces caractères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how katakana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agit d’un double système d’écriture phonétique où chaque hiragana correspond à un katakana.
Et au troisième étage, les mots Club Gaïa en rose fluo sur fond jaune. En caractères romains et en katakana, l’alphabet syllabaire utilisé pour la transcription des termes étrangers.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.