shiatsu
\ʃja.tsu\
The verdict
“shiatsu” is uncommon French (frequency #78,851 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,851
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique de toucher basée sur la connaissance de la circulation de l’énergie le long des méridiens, les pressions sur les points d’acupuncture visant à rétablir l’équilibre dans la circulation de ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-shiatsu · shiatsu · French
shiatsu · rank #78,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,851
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shampooings
Nearest frequency peer: shampooings (-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 « shiatsu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seri
seri
21,153 corpus weight
- seti
seti
21,152 corpus weight
- shampooings
shampooings
21,151 corpus weight
- shiatsu
shiatsu
21,150 corpus weight
- shikoku
shikoku
21,149 corpus weight
- shorter
shorter
21,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shiatsu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shiatsu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃja.tsu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shiatsu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shiatsu is uncommon French at frequency #78,851 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃja.tsu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technique de toucher basée sur la connaissance de la circulation de l’énergie le long des méridiens, les pressions sur les points d’acupuncture visant à rétablir l’équilibre dans la circulation de ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shiatsu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shiatsu, spelled S-H-I-A-T-S-U.
Definition
- 1Technique de toucher basée sur la connaissance de la circulation de l’énergie le long des méridiens, les pressions sur les points d’acupuncture visant à rétablir l’équilibre dans la circulation de l’énergie et par là permettent au corps le retour à un état normal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shiatsu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, de nombreuses approches médicales ou paramédicales sont à disposition pour améliorer la santé des yeux, depuis « le massage yoga jusqu’à l’acupuncture, en passant par le shiatsu, la phytothérapie, l’aromathérapie, la mésothérapie, l’hypnose et les remèdes de grand-mère, à l’instar du sachet de thé noir infusé en cas d’inflammation », liste la docte…
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).