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Of the 449,925 most-common Japanese words (ranked by corpus frequency), how many the word page can show something for.

English coverage
Updated July 15, 2026
Top 1k words 99.9% 981/982
Top 2k words 99.9% 1,965/1,967
Top 5k words 100.0% 4,922/4,924
Top 10k words 100.0% 9,856/9,860
Top 20k words 99.9% 19,728/19,739
Top 50k words 100.0% 49,300/49,322
Top 100k words 100.0% 98,323/98,360
Full corpus (449,925 words) 100.0% 449,787/449,925

โ€œCoveredโ€ = an exact search for that headword returns any result in English. A definition, a Wikipedia article, or a name.

By source dictionary
Dictionary Type Entries English glosses
JMdict definition 217,625 445,659
Wikipedia encyclopedia 984,090 431,060
JLPT grammar points grammar 282 282
KANJIDIC2 kanji 13,108 24,823
JMnedict name 743,421 753,878
JMdict Examples sentence 26,012 26,012
Tatoeba sentence 248,802 232,666
217,625
Dictionary entries
13,108
Kanji
274,814
Example sentences
449,925
Frequency-ranked words
743,421
Proper names
394,240
Pitch-accent entries
10
Source dictionaries

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