koji
The verdict
“koji” is uncommon French (frequency #60,905 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,905
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide contenant de l’amidon provenant de céréales diverses, ensemencé par des spores de champignons du genre Aspergillus qui conduisent à la saccharification de l’amidon, préalable à la fabricati...
Corpus desk
Index FR-koji · koji · French
koji · rank #60,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,905
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH krypton
Nearest frequency peer: krypton (+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 « koji »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Klimt
Klimt
39,099 corpus weight
- koji
koji
39,096 corpus weight
- krypton
krypton
39,095 corpus weight
- kryptonite
kryptonite
39,094 corpus weight
- Lacanau
Lacanau
39,093 corpus weight
- Lafrance
Lafrance
39,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « koji » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | koji |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « koji » en français
Rare enough to double-check
koji is uncommon French at frequency #60,905 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liquide contenant de l’amidon provenant de céréales diverses, ensemencé par des spores de champignons du genre Aspergillus qui conduisent à la saccharification de l’amidon, préalable à la fabricati...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for koji in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 koji, spelled K-O-J-I.
Definition
- 1Liquide contenant de l’amidon provenant de céréales diverses, ensemencé par des spores de champignons du genre Aspergillus qui conduisent à la saccharification de l’amidon, préalable à la fabrication de divers alcools dont le saké.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how koji appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le koji peut contenir un mélange de moisissures , de bactéries et de levures mais le tane koji, une culture d'Aspergillus oryzae, est l'inoculum de moisissure généralement utilisé au Japon pour amorcer n'importe quelle sorte de koji.
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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