canola

\ka.no.la\

/\ka.no.la\/ noun

The verdict

“canola” is uncommon French (frequency #93,572 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,572
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de colza.

Corpus desk

Index FR-canola · canola · French

canola · rank #93,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,572
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH candides

Nearest frequency peer: candides (-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 « canola »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canola » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for canola
PropertyValue
Headwordcanola
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.no.la\
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,572
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « canola » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).canolatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « candides » (#93,571), « cambriole » (#93,570), « capitouls » (#93,575). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « canola » est au #93,572. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

canola is uncommon French at frequency #93,572 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.no.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de colza.".

No misspelling variants are generated for canola in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is canola, spelled C-A-N-O-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variété de colza.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. M. Groleau rappelle que les éleveurs de porc et les producteurs de canola n’ont pas reçu de compensation de la part d’Ottawa dans la foulée de l’affaire Huawei.
  2. L’amenuisement des stocks mondiaux de graines de colza et de canola combiné à la forte de demande en huiles ont encore poussé les prix à la hausse cette semaine. […]. Le canola enregistre une hausse encore plus marquée que le colza compte tenu d’une très vive tension sur les stocks.

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 "canola"?
"canola" is spelled C-A-N-O-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.no.la\.
What does "canola" mean?
As a noun, "canola" means: Variété de colza.
How do you pronounce "canola"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "canola" is \ka.no.la\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "canola" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list