cranberry
\kʁɑ̃.bɛ.ʁi\
The verdict
“cranberry” is uncommon French (frequency #91,572 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,572
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canneberge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cranberry · cranberry · French
cranberry · rank #91,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,572
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cramponner
Nearest frequency peer: cramponner (-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 « cranberry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Courseulles
Courseulles
8,432 corpus weight
- cowgirl
cowgirl
8,431 corpus weight
- cramponner
cramponner
8,430 corpus weight
- cranberry
cranberry
8,429 corpus weight
- Craonne
Craonne
8,428 corpus weight
- cras
cras
8,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cranberry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cranberry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɑ̃.bɛ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cranberry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cranberry is uncommon French at frequency #91,572 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɑ̃.bɛ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Canneberge.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cranberry, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cranberry, spelled C-R-A-N-B-E-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Canneberge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cranberry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour plus de diversité, vous pouvez y ajouter un peu de jus de citron ou de cranberry.
Mélangez l’huile d'olive, les herbes, les cranberrys et le jus de citron dans un petit saladier, puis salez.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).