cacahuète

\ka.ka.wɛt\

/\ka.ka.wɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“cacahuète” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,577
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gousse de l’arachide, qui mûrit sous terre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cacahuete · cacahuète · French

cacahuète · rank #25,577 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #25,577
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cafétéria

Nearest frequency peer: cafétéria (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cacahuète »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cacahuète » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cacahuète vs cacahuètes
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cacahuète »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cacahuètese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cafétéria » (#25,578), « bruyants » (#25,575), « calife » (#25,579). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cacahuète » est au #25,577. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around cacahuète (IPA \ka.ka.wɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,577 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cacahuète, spelled C-A-C-A-H-U-È-T-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cacahuète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Thérésa avait beaucoup grossi en l’espace de deux mois. Quand Yacob salua son père, occupé à éplucher des cacahuètes dans la véranda, il lui avoua l’avoir trouvée changée. « Ta chienne est maligne. Elle sait ouvrir les placards. »
  2. Il faisait trop beau pour s’enfermer, exception faite d’un pauvre gars accoudé au comptoir et déjà à moitié ivre qui grignotait des cacahuètes.

Synonyms

arachidepinottepeanutsnoix

This word in other languages

peanut(English)cacahuete(Español)Erdnuss(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accahuète
  • caachuète
  • cacahhuète
  • cacahuete
  • cacahutèe
  • cacahuèet
  • cacahuètte
  • cacahèute
  • cacauhète
  • caccahuète
  • cachauète
  • ccaahuète
  • ccacahuète

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cacahuète - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

accahuète2caachuète2cacahhuète1cacahuete1cacahutèe2cacahuèet2cacahuètte1cacahèute2
Edit distance from "cacahuète"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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?
"cacahuète" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cacahuète", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cafétéria#25,578bretonnes#25,573boursière#25,568bijoutier#25,567

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

bruyants13 variantsbrasseries13 variantsbranchée13 variantschoquante13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list