shôji
\ʃo.ʒi\
The verdict
“shôji” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Panneau coulissant constitué d’un cadre de bois tendu de papier translucide, et servant de cloison dans les maisons traditionnelles japonaises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shoji · shôji · French
shôji · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | shôji |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shôji” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shôji is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃo.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Panneau coulissant constitué d’un cadre de bois tendu de papier translucide, et servant de cloison dans les maisons traditionnelles japonaises.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shôji in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shôji, spelled S-H-Ô-J-I.
Definition
- 1Panneau coulissant constitué d’un cadre de bois tendu de papier translucide, et servant de cloison dans les maisons traditionnelles japonaises.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.