nut
\nuːt\
The verdict
“nut” is uncommon French (frequency #59,489 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,489
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de nuten.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nut · nut · French
nut · rank #59,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,489
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nuke
Nearest frequency peer: nuke (-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 « nut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuancés
nuancés
40,514 corpus weight
- nuke
nuke
40,513 corpus weight
- nut
nut
40,512 corpus weight
- nyt
nyt
40,510 corpus weight
- observais
observais
40,507 corpus weight
- odorante
odorante
40,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nuːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nut is uncommon French at frequency #59,489 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nuːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de nuten.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nut in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nut, spelled N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de nuten.
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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