waka
\wa.ka\
The verdict
“waka” is uncommon French (frequency #57,687 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,687
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de poésie japonaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waka · waka · French
waka · rank #57,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,687
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH véloce
Nearest frequency peer: véloce (-2 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 « waka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Volgograd
Volgograd
42,318 corpus weight
- vomissent
vomissent
42,317 corpus weight
- véloce
véloce
42,316 corpus weight
- waka
waka
42,314 corpus weight
- Whelan
Whelan
42,312 corpus weight
- width
width
42,311 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « waka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « waka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
waka is uncommon French at frequency #57,687 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de poésie japonaise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for waka in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is waka, spelled W-A-K-A.
Definition
- 1Genre de poésie japonaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how waka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Hé, regarde-moi ça. Il y a un poème waka japonais au dos du paquet ». McCarthy lut la courte poésie à voix haute, dominant le bruit de la circulation : Au chant du coucou, Je lève les yeux Vers sa voix. Que vois-je ? La lune pâle sur fond d’aube.
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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