fruit à pain
\fʁɥi a pɛ̃\
The verdict
“fruit à pain” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit de l’arbre à pain, comestible après cuisson, qui a un goût de pomme de terre ou de pain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fruit-a-pain · fruit à pain · French
fruit à pain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | fruit à pain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɥi a pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
fruit à pain is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɥi a pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit de l’arbre à pain, comestible après cuisson, qui a un goût de pomme de terre ou de pain.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fruit à pain in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 à pain, spelled F-R-U-I-T- -À- -P-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Fruit de l’arbre à pain, comestible après cuisson, qui a un goût de pomme de terre ou de pain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fruit à pain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], je fus amené à goûter tous les mets étranges qui constituaient le repas. Il y avait […] du kaku, un mets délicieux qui est fait de la pâte de fruit à pain cuite dans du lait de coco, […].
Pendant des heures, sous un soleil à faire pâlir le foyer d'un forgeron, nous nous entrainons, sur la place publique ou sur la plage, en tapant pieds nus dans un fruit à pain vert, jusqu'à ce qu'il se transforme en bouillie.
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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.