couteau à fruit
\ku.to a fʁɥi\
The verdict
“couteau à fruit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couteau conçu pour éplucher les fruits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteau-a-fruit · couteau à fruit · French
couteau à fruit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couteau à fruit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to a fʁɥi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
couteau à fruit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.to a fʁɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couteau conçu pour éplucher les fruits.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for couteau à fruit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is couteau à fruit, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -À- -F-R-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Couteau conçu pour éplucher les fruits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couteau à fruit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’entends à présent le bruissement de papier argenté sur lequel est écrit le nom 'Suchard' ; puis le trk-trk-trk d’un couteau à fruit coupant les pages de La Revue des Deux Mondes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.