Kyushu
\kju.ʃu\
The verdict
“Kyushu” is uncommon French (frequency #60,145 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,145
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’île la plus occidentale des quatre îles principales du Japon, la troisième île en superficie et la deuxième en population.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kyushu · Kyushu · French
Kyushu · rank #60,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,145
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH ksar
Nearest frequency peer: ksar (-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 « Kyushu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kitchener
Kitchener
39,860 corpus weight
- kora
kora
39,858 corpus weight
- ksar
ksar
39,857 corpus weight
- Kyushu
Kyushu
39,856 corpus weight
- labellisati…
labellisation
39,854 corpus weight
- laborieusem…
laborieusement
39,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kyushu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kyushu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kju.ʃu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kyushu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kyushu is uncommon French at frequency #60,145 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kju.ʃu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "L’île la plus occidentale des quatre îles principales du Japon, la troisième île en superficie et la deuxième en population.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kyushu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Kyushu, spelled K-Y-U-S-H-U.
Definition
- 1L’île la plus occidentale des quatre îles principales du Japon, la troisième île en superficie et la deuxième en population.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kyushu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rafales de vent ont pu atteindre les 234 km/h, et les pluies déverser jusqu’à 500 mm d’eau en vingt-quatre heures dans certaines régions de l’île de Kyushu.
À côté du matelas, un grand panier rempli à ras bord de tangerines de Kyushu - un cadeau coûteux de la paroisse - libérait ses senteurs divines.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).