kawaii
\ka.wa.i\
The verdict
“kawaii” is uncommon French (frequency #54,059 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,059
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mignon, spécialement en parlant de la pop culture japonaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kawaii · kawaii · French
kawaii · rank #54,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,059
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Katerine
Nearest frequency peer: Katerine (-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 « kawaii »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- justifiable
justifiable
45,946 corpus weight
- kami
kami
45,945 corpus weight
- kari
kari
45,944 corpus weight
- Katerine
Katerine
45,943 corpus weight
- kawaii
kawaii
45,942 corpus weight
- kibboutz
kibboutz
45,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kawaii » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kawaii |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.wa.i\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kawaii » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kawaii is uncommon French at frequency #54,059 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.wa.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mignon, spécialement en parlant de la pop culture japonaise.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kawaii, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kawaii, spelled K-A-W-A-I-I.
Definition
- 1Mignon, spécialement en parlant de la pop culture japonaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kawaii appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour dessiner un chat kawaii, on ne dessine pas les yeux tels qu’ils sont dans la réalité ! Selon leur forme, ils expriment un caractère ou une émotion.
Aux yeux des plus jeunes, – et cela relève tout autant du stéréotype – le pays des mangas, des jeux vidéos et de l’esthétique kawaii apparaît comme un univers de science-fiction et suscite une admiration béate.
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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