shikoku
\ʃi.ko.ku\
The verdict
“shikoku” is uncommon French (frequency #78,852 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,852
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien de type primitif et spitz, originaire d’une île du Japon, au poil dense.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shikoku · shikoku · French
shikoku · rank #78,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,852
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shiatsu
Nearest frequency peer: shiatsu (-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 « shikoku »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- sian
sian
21,146 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shikoku » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shikoku |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ko.ku\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shikoku » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shikoku is uncommon French at frequency #78,852 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ko.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien de type primitif et spitz, originaire d’une île du Japon, au poil dense.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shikoku, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 shikoku, spelled S-H-I-K-O-K-U.
Definition
- 1Race de chien de type primitif et spitz, originaire d’une île du Japon, au poil dense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shikoku appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le shikoku fait partie du groupe 5 du classement des races de chien par la société centrale canine ou SCC.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).