Food · #967 biggest of 1,014
How big is a peppercorn?
5 mm
A peppercorn measures 5 mm. That's about 71 human-hair widths lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 5 mm across — roughly the width of a few human hairs.
- You'd need about 340 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
- Roughly 71 human-hair widths could line up across it.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #967 by size.
Size comparison
How peppercorn stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
1-carat diamond
6.5 mm
garnet
6.0 mm
ant
5.0 mm
mosquito
5.0 mm
peppercorn
5.0 mm
sesame seed
3.0 mm
stapes (smallest bone)
3.0 mm
grain of pyrite
3.0 mm
flea
2.5 mm
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
It's so small that about 0.2 of them would fit across a single millimeter.
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