yamakasi
French, noun/ja.ma.ka.zi/
yamakasi is spelled Y-A-M-A-K-A-S-I (8 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yamakasi is a French masculine noun meaning “free runner (parkour runner)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acrobate urbain adepte du parkour ou du free running, traceur”.
What does yamakasi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefree runner (parkour runner)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acrobate urbain adepte du parkour ou du free running, traceur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of yamakasi
- yamakasis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yamakasi?
- /ja.ma.ka.zi/
- \ja.ma.ka.si\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is yamakasi in French?
yamakasi appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).