canola
\ka.no.la\
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
- calleux
calleux
6,433 corpus weight
- cambriole
cambriole
6,431 corpus weight
- candides
candides
6,430 corpus weight
- canola
canola
6,429 corpus weight
- capitouls
capitouls
6,426 corpus weight
- caprine
caprine
6,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canola » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canola |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.no.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canola » en français
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
- 1Variété de colza.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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