anot

/əˈnɔt˨/particle

anot is a particle meaning “Alternative form of or not” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-T, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does anot mean?

particle

1
colloquialAlternative form of or not.
Your computer got virus anot?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce anot?

/əˈnɔt˨/
[əˈnɔt̚˨]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is anot?

Anot appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.

anot0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

Where does anot come from?

Partial calque of Hokkien 抑無 /抑无 (a̍h bô / á bô, “or not; or no; or none”). See also Hokkien 抑是 (a̍h-sī / á-sǐ, “or”), 是抑毋是 (sī á-m̄-sī / sǐ á-m̄-sǐ, “isn't?”, literally “is it? or is it not?”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).