nugget
\nœ.ɡɛt\
The verdict
“nugget” is uncommon French (frequency #79,569 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,569
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau, habituellement de poulet, ou à base de poulet (occasionnellement un autre ingrédient est utilisé à la place, comme du fromage, ou du bœuf), pané, et frit à l’huile ou cuit au four.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nugget · nugget · French
nugget · rank #79,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,569
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH névralgiques
Nearest frequency peer: névralgiques (+2 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 « nugget »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nian
nian
20,437 corpus weight
- nugget
nugget
20,432 corpus weight
- névralgiques
névralgiques
20,430 corpus weight
- obsédante
obsédante
20,429 corpus weight
- Olier
Olier
20,427 corpus weight
- omise
omise
20,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nugget » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nugget |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nœ.ɡɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nugget » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nugget is uncommon French at frequency #79,569 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nœ.ɡɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nugget, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nugget, spelled N-U-G-G-E-T.
Definition
- 1Morceau, habituellement de poulet, ou à base de poulet (occasionnellement un autre ingrédient est utilisé à la place, comme du fromage, ou du bœuf), pané, et frit à l’huile ou cuit au four.
- 2Pépite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nugget appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Greenpeace accuse McDonald’s et le géant américain du soja Cargill de « saccager » les forêts amazoniennes en y cultivant le soja nécessaire à alimenter les poulets qui finiront en nuggets.
Sauf que McDo, qui mise sur le poulet pour tailler des croupières à son concurrent KFC, s’inquiète pour l’avenir de ce bijou nutritionnel qu’est le nugget.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).