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I would like to know if わきみち _wakimichi_ 【脇道 · わき道】 is common. It's my
understanding that it means "side street" or "alley".
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Is わきみち wakimichi 【脇道 · わき道】 common?
In the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ, 少納言, via
<http://nlb.ninjal.ac.jp>), 脇道 has 129 entries

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    脇道　  103 results
    わき道   25 results
    傍道　    1 result
    
```

So, 脇道 is the most common spelling. A few words of roughly the same frequency
you might know are 小皿 (129), ガールフレンド (129), かき氷 (129), レーズン (130), 嫁入り (130).
So, for something meaning "side street" I would say that it's common enough to
be worth remembering.
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