koto
\ko.to\
The verdict
“koto” is uncommon French (frequency #74,131 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,131
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique japonais à cordes pincées de la catégorie des cithares sur table.
Corpus desk
Index FR-koto · koto · French
koto · rank #74,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,131
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kone
Nearest frequency peer: kone (-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 « koto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kitano
Kitano
25,875 corpus weight
- Kittel
Kittel
25,874 corpus weight
- knut
knut
25,872 corpus weight
- kone
kone
25,871 corpus weight
- koto
koto
25,870 corpus weight
- laa
laa
25,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « koto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | koto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « koto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
koto is uncommon French at frequency #74,131 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ko.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument de musique japonais à cordes pincées de la catégorie des cithares sur table.".
Zero misspellings are on record for koto in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is koto, spelled K-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique japonais à cordes pincées de la catégorie des cithares sur table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how koto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, que reste-t-il pour « satisfaire aux questions des curieux » ? Il reste le récit mouvementé de cet accord lentement négocié entre un Ciel bienveillant et sa postérité terrestre, et la filiation impériale ininterrompue qui en témoigne. Mais surtout, une gratitude obscure et fervente qui ne s’exprime pas en dogmes mais se danse presque journellement…
Elle jouait du koto, ce qui constituait pratiquement sa seule distraction, dont le son aussi réservé que son caractère était souvent étouffé comme le gazouillis des petits oiseaux.
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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