shogunat
\ʃɔ.ɡu.na\
The verdict
“shogunat” is uncommon French (frequency #83,381 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,381
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Dignité de shogun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shogunat · shogunat · French
shogunat · rank #83,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,381
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH siamoise
Nearest frequency peer: siamoise (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shogunat”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shaming
shaming
16,626 corpus weight
- shaykh
shaykh
16,622 corpus weight
- shogunat
shogunat
16,620 corpus weight
- siamoise
siamoise
16,619 corpus weight
- Simo
Simo
16,616 corpus weight
- Simoncini
Simoncini
16,615 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shogunat” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shogunat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.ɡu.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shogunat” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shogunat is uncommon French at frequency #83,381 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɔ.ɡu.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
shogunat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shogunat, spelled S-H-O-G-U-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Dignité de shogun.
- 2Régime politique dominé par un shogun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shogunat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-dessus de tout se place une autorité, ou plutôt un représentant sacré de l’autorité divine, le mikado, dont on sait la légende théocratique. […] Au temps des guerres civiles, quand il était à la merci du général vainqueur ; au temps du shogunat, quand il était relégué à Kyoto et quand un autre disposait en fait de l’administration, […]
Dans les années 1860, de grands feudataires de l'ouest du Japon prennent les armes, mettent fin au régime du shogunat instauré en 1603 et proclament la « restauration impériale ».
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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