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cronut

French, noun/kʁɔ.nœt/

cronut is spelled C-R-O-N-U-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cronut is a French masculine noun meaning “cronut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pâtisserie frite dans l’huile et de forme annulaire comme un donut, et à la texture aérée et feuilletée du…”.

What does cronut mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecronut

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pâtisserie frite dans l’huile et de forme annulaire comme un donut, et à la texture aérée et feuilletée du croissant.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cronut

  • cronuts plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cronut?

  • /kʁɔ.nœt/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to cronut

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cronut in French?

cronut appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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