canuts
\ka.ny\
The verdict
“canuts” is uncommon French (frequency #84,610 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,610
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de canut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canuts · canuts · French
canuts · rank #84,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,610
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canuel
Nearest frequency peer: Canuel (-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 « canuts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camés
camés
15,394 corpus weight
- candélabre
candélabre
15,393 corpus weight
- Canuel
Canuel
15,392 corpus weight
- canuts
canuts
15,391 corpus weight
- canyoning
canyoning
15,390 corpus weight
- capron
capron
15,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canuts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canuts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ny\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canuts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canuts is uncommon French at frequency #84,610 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de canut.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for canuts in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is canuts, spelled C-A-N-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de canut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canuts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, aux temps des insurrections, les canuts créent leur propre organe, un hebdomadaire de huit pages sur deux colonnes, L’Écho de la fabrique.
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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