currant
/ˈkʌɹənt/noun
currant is spelled C-U-R-R-A-N-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “currant vs current” about 720 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, currant means “A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of currant is currants.
How many letters and syllables are in currant?
| Letters | 7: C-U-R-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,337th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is currant?
Currant appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce currant?
- UK /ˈkʌɹənt/
- /ˈkʊɹənt/
- Australia /ˈkɐɹənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-currant.ogg, En-us-ne-current.ogg, En-us-current.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with currant
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: courant, current (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with currant?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as currant from its last stressed vowel (/ʌɹənt/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of currant
- currants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does currant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape.
- 2
The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
- 3
A shrub bearing such fruit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Currant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | raisin de Corinthe , groseille (redcurrant), cassis (blackcurrant) , groseillier |
| German | Korinthe , Johannisbeere, Ribisel , Johannisbeerstrauch, Johannisbeerstaude |
| Portuguese | passa , groselha , groselheira |
| Spanish | pasa de Corinto , grosella , grosellero |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does currant come from?
Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”). Cognate with Dutch krent. Doublet of Corinth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).