coconut
\ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt\
The verdict
“coconut” is uncommon French (frequency #69,695 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,695
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noix de coco.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coconut · coconut · French
coconut · rank #69,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,695
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cluse
Nearest frequency peer: cluse (-2 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 « coconut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- climatisés
climatisés
30,310 corpus weight
- Cluj
Cluj
30,309 corpus weight
- cluse
cluse
30,308 corpus weight
- coconut
coconut
30,306 corpus weight
- colistier
colistier
30,304 corpus weight
- collabora
collabora
30,303 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coconut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coconut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coconut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coconut is uncommon French at frequency #69,695 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
coconut has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coconut, spelled C-O-C-O-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Noix de coco.
- 2Tête.
- 3Personne de couleur noire et se conformant aux stéréotypes des blancs américains (« caucasiens »).
- 4Personne de couleur noire pensant comme un blanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coconut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You’re a nut! You’re crazy in the coconut!
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).