Food · #911 biggest of 1,014
How big is a walnut?
4 cm
A walnut measures 4 cm. That's about 571 human-hair widths lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 4 cm, or about 1.57 inches.
- You'd need about 43 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
- Roughly 571 human-hair widths could line up across it.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #911 by size.
Size comparison
How walnut stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
golf ball
4.3 cm
cockroach
4.0 cm
ping-pong ball
4.0 cm
strawberry
4.0 cm
walnut
4.0 cm
CPU chip
4.0 cm
neon tetra
4.0 cm
screw
4.0 cm
wristwatch
4.0 cm
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
You could line up roughly 43 of them along the height of an average person.
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