Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toki

/ˈtəʊki/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables: to-ki
IPA: /ˈtəʊki/

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon).

Example Sentences

"The Toki or Japanese crested ibis (ibis nippon) is an almost extinct kind of bird resembling the heron."
"The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail."
"The few remaining toki live on Sado Island in Japan and in China."
"Sado is home of the Toki (Japanese Crested Ibis), however there are no wild Ibis left in Sado[.]"

Etymology

From Japanese 朱鷺 (toki).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 朱鷺

Inflected Forms

tokis (plural)

Rhymes With

low-key poke smoky loki smokey hokey pokey okie hokey pokey oaky folky cokey

Questions

How do you pronounce toki?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtəʊki/.
What does toki mean?: A Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon).
Where does toki come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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