cacahuète

/\ka.ka.wɛt\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,577

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

cacahuète is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gousse de l’arachide, qui mûrit sous terre. Pronounced \ka.ka.wɛt\. Often confused with cacahuètes.

Key facts for cacahuète
PropertyValue
Headwordcacahuète
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ka.wɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#25,577
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cacahuète in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cacahuète is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ka.wɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,577 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cacahuète, with forms such as "accahuète", "caachuète", and "cacahhuète". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cacahuètes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cacahuète, spelled C-A-C-A-H-U-È-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gousse de l’arachide, qui mûrit sous terre.
  2. 2
    Graine de l’arachide, dont on extrait de l’huile ou que l’on consomme torréfiée.
  3. 3
    Presque rien.
  4. 4
    Testicule.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: accahuète,caachuète,cacahhuète,cacahuete,cacahutèe,cacahuèet,cacahuètte,cacahèute,cacauhète,caccahuète,cachauète,ccaahuète,ccacahuète

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cacahuète

Misspelling Variants of "cacahuète"

accahuète9caachuète9cacahhuète10cacahuete9cacahutèe9cacahuèet9cacahuètte10cacahèute9
Misspelling Variants of "cacahuète"

Frequency rank: #25,577 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cacahuète"?
"cacahuète" is spelled C-A-C-A-H-U-È-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ka.wɛt\.
What does "cacahuète" mean?
As a noun, "cacahuète" means: Gousse de l’arachide, qui mûrit sous terre.
What words are commonly confused with "cacahuète"?
"cacahuète" is commonly confused with "cacahuètes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cacahuète"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cacahuète" is \ka.ka.wɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cacahuète" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.