cajou
\ka.ʒu\
The verdict
“cajou” is uncommon French (frequency #50,103 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,103
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anacardier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cajou · cajou · French
cajou · rank #50,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,103
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calibrer
Nearest frequency peer: calibrer (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cajou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bâclée
bâclée
49,901 corpus weight
- bétons
bétons
49,900 corpus weight
- cajou
cajou
49,898 corpus weight
- calibrer
calibrer
49,897 corpus weight
- Cantorbéry
Cantorbéry
49,896 corpus weight
- capelle
capelle
49,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cajou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cajou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʒu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cajou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cajou is uncommon French at frequency #50,103 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʒu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cajou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cajou, spelled C-A-J-O-U.
Definition
- 1Anacardier.
- 2Bois de cet arbre.
- 3Anacarde, noix de cajou, fruit de cet arbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cajou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La noix de cajou.
C’est là, sur un buffet de cajou blanc, que se trouvait la bouteille de Cristal-de-Roche.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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