potato
\pəˈteɪ.toʊ\
The verdict
“potato” is uncommon French (frequency #82,352 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,352
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pomme de terre, patate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potato · potato · French
potato · rank #82,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,352
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portos
Nearest frequency peer: portos (-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 « potato »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pondeuse
pondeuse
17,652 corpus weight
- popularisat…
popularisation
17,651 corpus weight
- portos
portos
17,650 corpus weight
- potato
potato
17,649 corpus weight
- pouillé
pouillé
17,648 corpus weight
- Poujade
Poujade
17,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potato » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potato |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pəˈteɪ.toʊ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potato » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potato is uncommon French at frequency #82,352 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pəˈteɪ.toʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pomme de terre, patate.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for potato, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is potato, spelled P-O-T-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Pomme de terre, patate.
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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