shinkansen
The verdict
“shinkansen” is uncommon French (frequency #81,573 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,573
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de train à grande vitesse en service au Japon
Corpus desk
Index FR-shinkansen · shinkansen · French
shinkansen · rank #81,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,573
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shim
Nearest frequency peer: shim (-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 « shinkansen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shad
shad
18,433 corpus weight
- shim
shim
18,429 corpus weight
- shinkansen
shinkansen
18,428 corpus weight
- showrunner
showrunner
18,426 corpus weight
- Shylock
Shylock
18,425 corpus weight
- siel
siel
18,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shinkansen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shinkansen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shinkansen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shinkansen is uncommon French at frequency #81,573 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Système de train à grande vitesse en service au Japon".
shinkansen has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is shinkansen, spelled S-H-I-N-K-A-N-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Système de train à grande vitesse en service au Japon
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shinkansen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trafic des trains à grande vitesse (shinkansen) était suspendu entre Tokyo et Osaka, indiquait la compagnie ferroviaire JR Central sur son site.
Un bento, c’est beau, un bento, c’est bon, surtout lorsqu’on l’achète sur un quai de gare avant de monter dans un shinkansen. Le voyage commence à cet instant-là.
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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