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School Life

Classroom banter, club activities, and exam season

4,249 subtitle lines analyzed

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Where do these rankings come from?

Word frequency is counted across 4,249 subtitle lines classified into this genre from JESC, an open research corpus of 2.8 million Japanese TV & film subtitle lines (Pryzant et al. 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

The map only lists words that already have a reviewed entry in our library — a frequent word you expect may still be in production, and each new set extends the map.

A few entries are compound words counted under their core component (a student-council compound under its base word, for example), so a count can occasionally sit slightly above the entry ranked before it.

Counts tied to specific franchise titles are excluded or adjusted, and the corpus predates 2018 — so the newest slang of a genre can rank lower than it feels like it should.

授業じゅぎょうclass / lesson

#1 in this genre's dialogue

N4
教室きょうしつclassroom

#2 in this genre's dialogue

N5
生徒会せいとかいstudent council

#3 in this genre's dialogue

N2
制服せいふくuniform (school or work)

#4 in this genre's dialogue

N3
宿題しゅくだいhomework

#5 in this genre's dialogue

N5
生徒会長せいとかいちょうstudent council president

#6 in this genre's dialogue

N2
放課後ほうかごafter school (hours)

#7 in this genre's dialogue

N2
転校生てんこうせいtransfer student

#8 in this genre's dialogue

N2
部活ぶかつschool club activities

#9 in this genre's dialogue

N2
同級生どうきゅうせいclassmate (same school year)

#10 in this genre's dialogue

N2
文化祭ぶんかさいschool cultural festival

#11 in this genre's dialogue

N2
担任たんにんhomeroom teacher (in charge of a class)

#12 in this genre's dialogue

N2
今日きょうtoday

#13 in this genre's dialogue

N5
先生せんせいteacher

#14 in this genre's dialogue

N5
行きますいきますto go (polite)

#15 in this genre's dialogue

N5
来ますきますto come (polite)

#16 in this genre's dialogue

N5
着るきるto wear / put on (upper-body clothes)

#17 in this genre's dialogue

N5
学校がっこうschool

#18 in this genre's dialogue

N5
言ういうto say

#19 in this genre's dialogue

N5
受けるうけるto receive / take (an exam)

#20 in this genre's dialogue

N4
卒業そつぎょうgraduation (to graduate)

#21 in this genre's dialogue

N4
入学にゅうがくentering a school / enrollment

#22 in this genre's dialogue

N4
高校こうこうsenior high school

#23 in this genre's dialogue

N4
終わるおわるto finish / end (intransitive)

#25 in this genre's dialogue

N4
職員室しょくいんしつstaff room (teachers' office)

#31 in this genre's dialogue

N2
始まるはじまるto begin / start (intransitive)

#37 in this genre's dialogue

N4
教えるおしえるto teach

#40 in this genre's dialogue

N5
修学旅行しゅうがくりょこうschool trip (overnight excursion)

#42 in this genre's dialogue

N2
忘れるわすれるto forget

#49 in this genre's dialogue

N5
クラスくらすclass (group of students)

#64 in this genre's dialogue

N5
学園がくえんacademy (used in school names & fiction)

#100 in this genre's dialogue

N2
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Words I — classroom core20 wordsFree
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Words II — clubs & after school12 wordsPRO
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Words III — exams & dramaComing soonPRO
Set phrases of the genre12 phrasesPRO
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Word frequency statistics derived from JESC (Japanese-English Subtitle Corpus, Pryzant et al. 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0). No corpus text is reproduced.