peanut
\pi.nɔt\
The verdict
“peanut” is uncommon French (frequency #58,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arachide, cacahouète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peanut · peanut · French
peanut · rank #58,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,147
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pebble
Nearest frequency peer: pebble (+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 « peanut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patria
patria
41,858 corpus weight
- Pausanias
Pausanias
41,857 corpus weight
- peanut
peanut
41,854 corpus weight
- pebble
pebble
41,853 corpus weight
- pelleteuse
pelleteuse
41,851 corpus weight
- percutante
percutante
41,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peanut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peanut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.nɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peanut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peanut is uncommon French at frequency #58,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.nɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arachide, cacahouète.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peanut, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 peanut, spelled P-E-A-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Arachide, cacahouète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peanut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peanut et pinotte sont également très courants, même à l’écrit, mais considérés généralement comme familiers.
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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