donut
\dɔ.nœt\
The verdict
“donut” is uncommon French (frequency #53,901 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,901
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beignet sucré et toroïdal, d’origine nord-américaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-donut · donut · French
donut · rank #53,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,901
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dorcel
Nearest frequency peer: Dorcel (+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 « donut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doctrinale
doctrinale
46,103 corpus weight
- dominations
dominations
46,102 corpus weight
- donut
donut
46,100 corpus weight
- Dorcel
Dorcel
46,099 corpus weight
- dorures
dorures
46,098 corpus weight
- doublures
doublures
46,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « donut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | donut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.nœt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « donut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
donut is uncommon French at frequency #53,901 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.nœt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
donut doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is donut, spelled D-O-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Beignet sucré et toroïdal, d’origine nord-américaine.
- 2Beignet.
- 3Figure consistant à faire patiner le ou les pneus arrière d’un véhicule en dessinant des cercles de gommes sur le sol ; burn circulaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how donut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous devons aussi apporter des donuts aux plus anciens de l’équipe avant certains entrainements.
Un donut bien carré rappelle les fameux beignets poudrés de la Nouvelle Orléans, en plus bourratif.
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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