Kubota

name

The verdict

“Kubota” is uncommon French (frequency #85,860 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,860
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-kubota · Kubota · French

Kubota · rank #85,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,860
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH Lacouture

Nearest frequency peer: Lacouture (+2 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 « Kubota »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kubota » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kubota
PropertyValue
HeadwordKubota
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#85,860
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Kubota » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Kubotatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Lacouture » (#85,862), « Komintern » (#85,857), « Ladurée » (#85,863). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Kubota » est au #85,860. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kubota is uncommon French at frequency #85,860 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kubota, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Kubota, spelled K-U-B-O-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Kubota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mantarō Kubota (1889)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kubota"?
"Kubota" is spelled K-U-B-O-T-A.
What does "Kubota" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kubota" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Kubota" come from?
"Kubota" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kubota", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list