canut
\ka.ny\
The verdict
“canut” is uncommon French (frequency #78,228 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,228
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier tisserand de soie travaillant sur un métier à tisser, au XIXᵉ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canut · canut · French
canut · rank #78,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,228
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cantina
Nearest frequency peer: cantina (-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 « canut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- campagna
campagna
21,777 corpus weight
- Candid
Candid
21,775 corpus weight
- cantina
cantina
21,774 corpus weight
- canut
canut
21,773 corpus weight
- cardiopathie
cardiopathie
21,771 corpus weight
- carex
carex
21,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ny\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canut is uncommon French at frequency #78,228 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for canut, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is canut, spelled C-A-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier tisserand de soie travaillant sur un métier à tisser, au XIXᵉ.
- 2Personne très pauvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les canuts n’ayant pas de vin Aux Charpennes courent soudain.
Un canut travaille tout le jour dans le mauvais air, gagne vingt sous, et meurt de faim. […]. Un canut est libre direz-vous ? Libre de quoi, s'il vous plait ? Libre de se promener, s'il a le temps ; de boire, manger ? s'il a de quoi de vivre ? pas toujours ; de se tuer ? davantage, si on ne l'empêche pourtant : c'est un esclave lié, garrotté par la misère…
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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