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popcorn

French, noun\pɔp.kɔʁn\

popcorn is spelled P-O-P-C-O-R-N (7 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Popcorn is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of pop-corn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de pop-corn”.

What does popcorn mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepost-1990 spelling of pop-corn

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante de pop-corn.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of popcorn

  • popcorns plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce popcorn?

  • \pɔp.kɔʁn\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to popcorn

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is popcorn in French?

popcorn appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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