Otaku
The verdict
“Otaku” is uncommon French (frequency #61,756 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,756
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Otaku, amateur de mangas et autres produits de la culture populaire japonaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-otaku · Otaku · French
Otaku · rank #61,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,756
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Orval
Nearest frequency peer: Orval (-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 « Otaku »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ollier
Ollier
38,251 corpus weight
- orthophonie
orthophonie
38,248 corpus weight
- Orval
Orval
38,247 corpus weight
- Otaku
Otaku
38,245 corpus weight
- outrecuidan…
outrecuidance
38,243 corpus weight
- Palois
Palois
38,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Otaku » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Otaku |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Otaku » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Otaku is uncommon French at frequency #61,756 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Otaku, amateur de mangas et autres produits de la culture populaire japonaise.".
Otaku doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Otaku, spelled O-T-A-K-U.
Definition
- 1Otaku, amateur de mangas et autres produits de la culture populaire japonaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Otaku appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er beschägtigt sich ausschliesslich mit Anime. Er ist ein echter Otaku.
Antonyms
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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