Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kotatsu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables: ko-tat-su
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.

Example Sentences

"I dreamed my way through cold winters with my family at the kotatsu, with my friends at their kotatsus, huddled under my futon alone in the cold nights."

Etymology

From Japanese 炬燵 (kotatsu).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 炬燵

Inflected Forms

kotatsus (plural)

Questions

What does kotatsu mean?: A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.
Where does kotatsu come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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