wasabi

/\wa.za.bi\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#58,357

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

wasabi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante, Eutrema japonicum (Wasabia japonica), de la famille des Brassicacées, originaire du Japon, utilisée comme condiment dans la cuisine japonaise et dont la saveur piquante est produite par la ... Pronounced \wa.za.bi\.

Key facts for wasabi
PropertyValue
Headwordwasabi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\wa.za.bi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#58,357
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of wasabi in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for wasabi is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa.za.bi\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,357 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for wasabi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is wasabi, spelled W-A-S-A-B-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante, Eutrema japonicum (Wasabia japonica), de la famille des Brassicacées, originaire du Japon, utilisée comme condiment dans la cuisine japonaise et dont la saveur piquante est produite par la présence d'isothiocyanate d’allyle et de son précurseur la sinigrine
  2. 2
    Condiment japonais fait à partir de cette plante.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #58,357 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wasabi"?
"wasabi" is spelled W-A-S-A-B-I. The IPA pronunciation is \wa.za.bi\.
What does "wasabi" mean?
As a noun, "wasabi" means: Plante, Eutrema japonicum (Wasabia japonica), de la famille des Brassicacées, originaire du Japon, utilisée comme condiment dans la cuisine japonaise et dont la saveur piquante est produite par la ...
How do you pronounce "wasabi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wasabi" is \wa.za.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wasabi" come from?
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Data Source: 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.