ani
/ˈɑː.ni/
"ani" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ani” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,287) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,287
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ani · ani · English
ani · rank #22,287 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,287
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anew
Nearest frequency peer: anew (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ani”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Andhra
Andhra
77,717 corpus weight
- anecdote
anecdote
77,716 corpus weight
- anew
anew
77,715 corpus weight
- ani
ani
77,714 corpus weight
- Antifa
Antifa
77,713 corpus weight
- Antwerp
Antwerp
77,712 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ani” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ani |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑː.ni/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ani”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ani is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈɑː.ni/. Frequency #22,287 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ani in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "AP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese ani or Spanish aní, both from Old Tupi any. The correct English form is ani, spelled A-N-I.
Definition
- 1Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese ani or Spanish aní, both from Old Tupi any.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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