ozeki

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

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noun

"Terunofuji is the first in 64 years to be promoted to ozeki after spending two tournaments as a komusubi or sekiwake and the first since the season went to six meets in 1958."
"Former ozeki Hokutenyu, who held sumo’s second-highest rank for 44 tournaments […] died of kidney cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Friday at the age of 45."

Borrowed from Japanese 大関(おおぜき) (ōzeki).

ozekis (plural) ōzeki (alternative)

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