fruit
\fʁɥi\
The verdict
“fruit” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,262 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,262
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Organe des angiospermes, résultant du développement de l’ovaire après la fécondation, contenant une ou plusieurs graines, et jouant un rôle dans leur dissémination.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fruit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɥi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fruit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fruit is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɥi\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,262 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fruit, with forms such as "ffruit", "friut", and "frruit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fût", "fui", "fuir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fruit, spelled F-R-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Organe des angiospermes, résultant du développement de l’ovaire après la fécondation, contenant une ou plusieurs graines, et jouant un rôle dans leur dissémination.
- 2Produit végétal sucré utilisé essentiellement comme dessert ou utilisé en cuisine pour préparer des desserts ou des préparations alimentaires sucrées (par opposition aux légumes).
- 3Dessert, tout ce qu’on sert au dernier service de table, après les viandes et entremets (dans ce sens, le mot n’a pas de pluriel).
- 4Produits ou revenus d’une terre, d’un immeuble, d’un fonds quelconque ou d’une charge.
- 5Enfant, par rapport à sa mère ou une union.
- 6Utilité, profit ou avantage qu’on retire de quelque chose.
- 7Effet ou résultat d’une cause, soit bonne, soit mauvaise.
- 8Non-verticalité du côté extérieur d'une muraille, le côté intérieur étant vertical (la muraille étant ainsi plus épaisse en bas qu'en haut ; beaucoup plus rarement, la muraille s’épaissit en montant, et l’on parle de contre-fruit.)
- 9Personne qui ne remplit pas ou mal une fonction qu’elle occupe, et par extension, personne inutile, incapable, maladroite voire plus généralement imbécile.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffruit,friut,frruit,fruitt,fruti,furit,rfuit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fruit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “fruit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-U-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁɥi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fût” - see the side-by-side comparison. fruit vs fût
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.