peanuts
\pi.nœts\
The verdict
“peanuts” is uncommon French (frequency #54,148 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,148
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très peu, presque rien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peanuts · peanuts · French
peanuts · rank #54,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,148
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passing
Nearest frequency peer: passing (-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 « peanuts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parolier
parolier
45,857 corpus weight
- parqués
parqués
45,856 corpus weight
- passing
passing
45,855 corpus weight
- peanuts
peanuts
45,853 corpus weight
- perpétrer
perpétrer
45,851 corpus weight
- Perrache
Perrache
45,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peanuts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peanuts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.nœts\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peanuts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peanuts is uncommon French at frequency #54,148 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.nœts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peanuts, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 peanuts, spelled P-E-A-N-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Très peu, presque rien.
- 2Très peu, presque rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peanuts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autre sujet d’interrogation : les moyens alloués aux agents de la nouvelle police : « 154 policiers municipaux à l’échelle de la ville, c’est “peanuts” ! », tance Fatoumata Koné, présidente du groupe Ecologistes de Paris. « Il va falloir y mettre les moyens pour que cette police municipale soit efficace. »
Sommes-nous de quelque espèce de singe pour travailler pour des peanuts?
Synonyms
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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