shikimi
\ʃi.ki.mi\
The verdict
“shikimi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire japonais de la badiane (Illicium spp.) en général, mais plus particulièrement de la badiane japonaise (Illicium anisatum).
Corpus desk
Index FR-shikimi · shikimi · French
shikimi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shikimi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ki.mi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
shikimi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ki.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for shikimi in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 shikimi, spelled S-H-I-K-I-M-I.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire japonais de la badiane (Illicium spp.) en général, mais plus particulièrement de la badiane japonaise (Illicium anisatum).
- 2Nom donné aux fruits de la badiane japonaise (Illicium anisatum) que l'on fait brûler comme encens au Japon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shikimi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Japon, on désigne du nom de shikimi tous les arbres ou arbustes du genre Illicium.
C'est à partir du nom local de la badiane japonaise (Illicium anisatum)(shikimi), plante hautement toxique, que l'on a baptisé certains de ses dérivés naturels les plus importants. Ainsi, on a isolé certains des principes de cette plante qui lui confèrent sa toxicité, soit la shikimine et la shikimitoxine, deux composés hautement néphrotoxiques. De plus,…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.